Gallery

The day after Pearl Harbor, a sign appears outside the Oakland store owned by a graduate of the University of California.
From the National Japanese American Historical Society.
Smithsonian Institution, A More Perfect Union, ©1995.
After Executive order 9066, posters order all Americans with Japanese ancestry out of their homes.
Photo by Dorothea Lange.
The Library of Congress, Dorothea Lange, ©1995.
Headline in the San Francisco Examiner.
National Archives.
Yoshiko Uchida, Desert Exile, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, ©1982.
Fishing boats left behind by incarcerated Japanese Americans were later sold for a fraction of their value.
Photo by Dorothea Lange. From Bernard K. Johnpoll.
Ed. by Roger Daniels, Sandra Taylor, and Harry Kitano; Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress; University of Utah Press; Salt Lake City, Utah; ©1986, p. 164.
Signs along the highways marked off prohibited zones.
Edward Spicer, Asael Hansen, Katherine Luomala, Marvin Opler; Impounded People, Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; ©1969, p. 42.
Japanese Americans being taken to the prison camps.
National Archives.
Yoshiko Uchida, Desert Exile, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1982.
Only the most critically ill were allowed to remain behind in institutions.
National Archives.
Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, ©1976, p. 8.
Parents and children wearing their ID tags at the Oakland railroad terminal.
By Dorothea Lange, from Bernard K. Johnpoll.
Ed. by Roger Daniels, Sandra Taylor, and Harry Kitano; Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress; University of Utah Press; Salt Lake City, Utah; ©1986, p. 20.
Leaving a life in Oakland behind.
By Dorothea Lange, from Bernard K. Johnpoll.
Ed. by Roger Daniels, Sandra Taylor, and Harry Kitano; Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress; University of Utah Press; Salt Lake City, Utah; ©1986, p. 73.
Camps were hurriedly built to house incoming prisoners.
National Archives.
Yoshiko Uchida, Desert Exile, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1982, p. 73.
Camps sprouted up across the country, as far to the north and east as North Dakota and Arkansas.
Edited from Frank and Joanne Iritani; Ten Visits; Asian American Curriculum Project, Inc.; San Mateo, CA; ©1995.
Poston was constructed on the Colorado River Indian Reservation.
Clem Albers, April 10, 1942. From National Archives.
University of Arizona Library, WRA Exhibit -- Building the Relocation Camps, ©1995.
The sky reflecting in the mud at Minidoka.
Francis Stewart, December 10, 1942. From National Archives.
Ed. by Roger Daniels, Sandra Taylor, and Harry Kitano; Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress; University of Utah Press; Salt Lake City, Utah; ©1986, p. 107.
October 15, 1943, at Berlin Fought, near Burley, Idaho. Young women from Minidoka working as sugar beet toppers.
Ed. by Roger Daniels, Sandra Taylor, and Harry Kitano; Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress; University of Utah Press; Salt Lake City, Utah; ©1986, p. 107.
F Street, the main Heart Mountain Relocation Center thoroughfare.
From Tom Parker, August 28, 1942, National Archives.
Ed. by Roger Daniels, Sandra Taylor, and Harry Kitano; Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress; University of Utah Press; Salt Lake City, Utah; ©1986, p. 34.
Canal Camp, one of two camps at Gila River.
Scott Hopkins, Poston, ©1996.
A pile of scrap wood left after camp construction.
University of Arizona Library, WRA Exhibit, ©1995.
Heart Mountain, Sept 1942. Making furniture from wood salvaged from the scrap pile.
Edward Spicer, Asael Hansen, Katherine Luomala, Marvin Opler; Impounded People, Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; ©1969, p. 73.
Making beds out of hay.
National Archives.
Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, ©1976, p. 9.
Sitting on homemade furniture in a 20' x 24' room in Tule Lake, Sept. 1942. A room of this size was often home to 3 couples.
Edward Spicer, Asael Hansen, Katherine Luomala, Marvin Opler; Impounded People, Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; ©1969.
Waiting to enter the mess hall.
National Archives.
Yoshiko Uchida, Desert Exile, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1982.
A makeshift classroom at Rohwer, Fall, 1942.
Edward Spicer, Asael Hansen, Katherine Luomala, Marvin Opler; Impounded People, Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; ©1969, p. 124.
The camp hospital.
University of Arizona Library, WRA Exhibit, ©1995.
July, 1942. Grave of the first Japanese American to die while imprisoned at Manzanar.
Edward Spicer, Asael Hansen, Katherine Luomala, Marvin Opler; Impounded People, Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; ©1969, p. 206.
A Manzanar dust storm.
Dorothea Lange, July 3, 1942.
Patch American High School, Pictures of World War II, ©1995.
On the edge of Manzanar.
Michael Furukawa, 442ND Go for Broke, ©1996.
Another warning sign at Manzanar.
Smithsonian Institution, A More Perfect Union, ©1995.
Protesting the shooting death of James Wakasa at his funeral.
Edward Spicer, Asael Hansen, Katherine Luomala, Marvin Opler; Impounded People, Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; ©1969, p. 137.
Preparing for a demonstration near the administration area. Tule Lake Segregation Center.
Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, ©1976, p. 13.
Photos smuggled from Tule Lake.
From Wayne M. Collins.
Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, ©1976, p. 16.
Prison within a prison. A steel cell block for four prisoners. Manzanar.
UCLA Research Library. National Archives.
Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, ©1976, p. 12.
Nisei and Kibei who had renouced their U.S. citizenship waiting in line for mitigation hearings after being targeted for deportation. Tule Lake.
National Archives.
Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, ©1976, p. 18.

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