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The Japanese quarter of San Francisco on the first day of evacuation from this area. About 660 merchants, shop-keepers, tradespeople, professional people left their homes on this morning for the Civil Control Station, from which they were dispatched by bus to the Tanforan Assembly Center. This photograph shows a family about to get on a bus. The little boy in the new cowboy hat is having his identification tag checked by an official before boarding. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorothea -- San Francisco, California. 4/29/42

Contributing Institution:

The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.