Two Japanese evacuee families meeting at assembly center, Salinas rodeo grounds – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Two Japanese evacuee families meeting at assembly center, Salinas rodeo grounds comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Two Japanese evacuee families meeting at assembly center, Salinas rodeo grounds
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Families meeting at the Salinas rodeo grounds in March 1942 show a place where livestock stalls and fairground buildings had been converted into temporary housing. Following Executive Order 9066, signed that February, people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast were ordered from their homes and held at assembly centers like this one before being moved to longer-term camps farther inland. The War Relocation Authority, the federal agency that ran the program, documented daily life in these centers. Many evacuees had left farms and businesses behind on short notice, so a moment of contact between relatives or neighbors stands out in the record.
| Created / published | 1942 March. |
|---|---|
| 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. A-237. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Salinas. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,223 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115061 |
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