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San Pedro, Cal. Apr. 1942. Fishing boats, formerly operated by residents of Japanese ancestry, tied up for the duration in Los Angeles harbor – Antique Wall Art

San Pedro, Cal. Apr. 1942. Fishing boats, formerly operated by residents of Japanese ancestry, tied up for the duration in Los Angeles harbor, 1942 April. — historic photograph
San Pedro, Cal. Apr. 1942. Fishing boats, formerly operated by residents of Japanese ancestry, tied up for the duration in Los Angeles harbor, 1942 April.. Historic photograph from the Los Angeles collection.

(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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A window into the past: San Pedro, Cal. Apr. 1942. Fishing boats, formerly operated by residents of Japanese ancestry, tied up for the duration in Los Angeles harbor, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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San Pedro, Cal. Apr. 1942. Fishing boats, formerly operated by residents of Japanese ancestry, tied up for the duration in Los Angeles harbor

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Fishing boats sit tied up in Los Angeles harbor at San Pedro, idle since the people who had operated them were forced to leave. Many of those fishermen were residents of Japanese ancestry who had long worked the waters off Terminal Island. After Executive Order 9066 was signed in February 1942, the government moved people of Japanese ancestry out of coastal areas, and their boats stayed docked for the duration of the war. The War Relocation Authority made the photograph as part of its documentation of that removal, and it is now held in the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection at the Library of Congress.

Created / published1942 April.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. B-78. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--San Pedro.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,231 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118759

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