San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - group of evacuees board motor coaches enroute to railroad station for transfer to Santa Anita Assembly Center, the only group to go from this city to Santa Anita – Historic Reproduction
(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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San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - group of evacuees board motor coaches enroute to railroad station for transfer to Santa Anita Assembly Center, the only group to go from this city to Santa Anita comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 - group of evacuees board motor coaches enroute to railroad station for transfer to Santa Anita Assembly Center, the only group to go from this city to Santa Anita
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Only one group left San Francisco for the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and this photograph records their departure. On April 6, 1942, evacuees of Japanese ancestry boarded motor coaches bound for a railroad station, the first leg of a trip south to the former racetrack in Arcadia, California. Following Executive Order 9066, signed in February 1942, the army moved people of Japanese descent from the West Coast, and Santa Anita, where families were housed in converted horse stalls, served as a temporary stop before the inland camps.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1943 [i.e., 1942] April 6. |
| Subjects | Evacuations--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Transportation--California--San Francisco. Queues--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. Arrivals & departures--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209360 |
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