San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - a family starts for the bus that will take them from the control station to the train depot / Signal Corps U.S. Army. – Vintage Wall Art
![San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - a family starts for the bus that will take them from the control station to the train depot / Signal Corps U.S. Army., [1942] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8d4fa69e070b-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - a family starts for the bus that will take them from the control station to the train depot / Signal Corps U.S. Army., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - a family starts for the bus that will take them from the control station to the train depot / Signal Corps U.S. Army.
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Military police escort a family from a control station toward a waiting bus, the first leg of their trip to the train depot in San Francisco in 1942. Under Executive Order 9066, signed in February 1942, the Army removed people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, and control stations like this one processed residents before they were moved to temporary assembly centers and then to inland camps. The Signal Corps, the Army's communications branch, made the picture as part of its documentation of the removal. Images like this one show how orderly and tightly managed the process was, while families experienced it as the sudden loss of homes, businesses and schooling.
| Created / published | [1942] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title from item. Blind stamped: Signal Corps U.S. Army. Signal Corps photo no. 9CA-42-1099-PSF. No. S630. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army--Military police--1940-1950. Evacuations--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. Families--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Transportation--California--San Francisco. Arrivals & departures--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,266 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209365 |
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