California State University Japanese American Digitization Project: An Exhibit

Upheaval

Registration and Processing, 1942

Photograph of registration and processing of Japanese Americans at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center in 1942. Caption on album page: "On arrival at assembly centers, the evacuees were directed to registrars, who had the individual and family files before them registered in and assigned to quarters; given identification buttons and escorted to quarters. Photo shows a registration and processing scene at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center."
 

Canceled Lease, 1942

Canceled Lease #9 between Carson Estate Company and Momoo Mochizuki "cancelled 4-6-42, tenant evacuated by U.S. Gov't." referring to the mass removal ("evacuation") of persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast as directed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9066.

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