Residents of Japanese ancestry waiting in line for voluntary inoculation against typhoid, preceding evacuation and housing in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration, San Francisco, Calif. – Vintage 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Residents of Japanese ancestry waiting in line for voluntary inoculation against typhoid, preceding evacuation and housing in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration, San Francisco, Calif.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Residents of Japanese ancestry waiting in line for voluntary inoculation against typhoid, preceding evacuation and housing in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration, San Francisco, Calif.
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People of Japanese ancestry stand in a line in San Francisco in April 1942, waiting to receive voluntary typhoid inoculations before they leave their homes. Within weeks of Executive Order 9066, which was signed in February 1942, the federal government began removing residents of Japanese descent from the West Coast. Those ordered out were first sent to temporary assembly centers and later moved to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were held for the duration of the war. The queue shows the routine paperwork and health steps that accompanied this forced removal, which was carried out with little notice.
| Created / published | 1942 April. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection. No. A-570. |
| Subjects | Evacuations--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans. Queues--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. Vaccinations--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169733 |
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