San Pedro, Calif. Apr. 1942. The last Redondo Beach residents of Japanese ancestry leaving by truck for relocation – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of San Pedro, Calif. Apr. 1942. The last Redondo Beach residents of Japanese ancestry leaving by truck for relocation. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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San Pedro, Calif. Apr. 1942. The last Redondo Beach residents of Japanese ancestry leaving by truck for relocation
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The picture shows the last Redondo Beach residents of Japanese ancestry leaving San Pedro by truck in April 1942, as their community was emptied out during the wartime removal. After Executive Order 9066 was signed in February 1942, the Army moved people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast to inland camps administered by the War Relocation Authority, which documented the process with its own photographers. The print belongs to the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection at the Library of Congress, and it captures the final, orderly stage of a removal that uprooted families and businesses across coastal California.
| Created / published | 1942 April. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. B-29. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--San Pedro. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,234 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119000 |
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