The Reverend John Carlos Derfelt, Baptist Minister, ties identification tag in cost lapel of the Reverend Sui Hiro of the San Lorenzo Holiness Church as he prepares to board evacuation bus. The Reverend Hiro is a graduate of the University of Tokyo. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. |
This family is awaiting evacuation bus. Each person carries an identification tag to assure keeping the family units intact, and to prevent straying of children. Evacuees of Japanese descent will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. |
 Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry stacked at public park as evacuation bus prepares to leave for Tanforan assembly center. Evacuees will be transferred later from assembly centers to War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration. 5/8/42
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 Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry ready to be loaded on moving van. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. 5/8/42
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 Members of the Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus. Identification tags are used to aid in keeping the family unit intact during all phases of evacuation. Mochida operated a nursery and five greenhouses on a two-acre site in Eden Township. He raised snapdragons and sweetpeas. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. 5/8/42
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 A young member of an evacuee family awaiting evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. 5/8/42
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 A young member of an evacuee family awaiting evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. 5/8/42
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 Grandfather and grandchildren awaiting evacuation bus. The grandfather conducted a dyeing and cleaning business. The family unit is preserved during the evacuation and at War Relocation Authority centers where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed for the duration. 5/8/42
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 A mother with her American-born-and-educated children awaiting evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. 5/8/42
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 These people of Japanese ancestry are awaiting the special bus which will take them, and other evacuees, to the Tanforan Assembly Center. The father of this small family is attending to their luggage and bed rolls. They will spend the duration at a War Relocation Authority. 5/8/42
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