Residents of Japanese Ancestry Await Bus with Baggage
4/6/1942
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The original caption for this photograph, taken by photographer Dorothea Lange, reads: San Francisco, California. With baggage stacked, residents of Japanese ancestry await bus at Wartime Civil Control Administration station, 2020 Van Ness Avenue, as part of the first group of 664 to be evacuated from San Francisco on April 6, 1942. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
This primary source comes from the Records of the War Relocation Authority.
National Archives Identifier:
536065Full Citation: Photograph 210-G-A92; San Francisco, California. With baggage stacked, residents of Japanese ancestry await bus at Wartime. . .; 4/6/1942; Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945; Records of the War Relocation Authority, Record Group 210; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/await-bus-with-baggage, April 18, 2024]
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