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Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese
The photograph depicts builders working on a Barracks block in preparation to build the huge center at Manzanar. The photograph has an attaching caption noting that the barrack block in the photograph as being only one of what would be 350 barrack…
Tags: 20th century, California, construction, Discrimination, evacuation, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Mandatory evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Photograph, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, So Cal, Southern California, WW2
Barrack 9, Apt. 6, San Bruno, CA
This is an unframed, sketched painting depicting the new living quarters in which the Hibi family are living in at the Tanforan Assembly Center. The painting depicts several barracks which were the housing for the Japanese people within the…
Their Best Way to Show Loyalty: An Editorial
A transcript of an editorial piece published by The San Francisco News noting that Japanese people and people with Japanese Ancestry voluntarily evacuating and being relocated is the way to show their loyalty to the state. Notes that people have been…
Sharp Camp following the evacuation order for persons of Japanese ancestry
The photograph depicts Aliens at Sharp Camp, California following the evacuation order for people of Japanese ancestry. The camp seen in the photograph was set up to serve as a detention centre were people were given hearings. The Japanese people…