People Waiting to Leave the Poston War Relocation Center
9/1945
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During World War II, Japanese Americans were targeted and detained at internment camps, including the Colorado River Relocation Center in Poston, Arizona (also known as the Poston War Relocation Center).
The original caption for this photograph reads: Poston, Arizona. The bus waits outside and young and old are anxious to be off. After the final plans have been made, boxes packed, and grants picked up, the residents of Poston are at last ready to leave the center. Now that so many of their friends have gone out before them, it is with a feeling of anticipation rather than sorrow that the evacuees prepare to leave the place which for three years has been home to them.
The original caption for this photograph reads: Poston, Arizona. The bus waits outside and young and old are anxious to be off. After the final plans have been made, boxes packed, and grants picked up, the residents of Poston are at last ready to leave the center. Now that so many of their friends have gone out before them, it is with a feeling of anticipation rather than sorrow that the evacuees prepare to leave the place which for three years has been home to them.
This primary source comes from the Records of the War Relocation Authority.
National Archives Identifier: 539871
Full Citation: Photograph 210-G-K349; Poston, Arizona. The bus waits outside and young and old are anxious to be off.; 9/1945; 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/waiting-poston, December 8, 2024]Activities that use this document
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