LOC Title
Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war
LOC Contributor Names
Lange, Dorothea, photographer
LOC Created/Published
1942 Mar.
LOC Standardized Date
1942
LOC Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Oakland
- Grocery stores--California--Oakland--1940-1950
- Japanese Americans--Civil rights--1940-1950
- Automobiles--California--Oakland--1940-1950
- Grocery stores--California--Oakland--1940-1950
- Japanese Americans--Civil rights--1940-1950
- Automobiles--California--Oakland--1940-1950
LOC Notes
- Title from item.
- No. A-35.
- Original negative is at the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA # 210-G-A35.
- Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).
- Published in: Dorothea Lange : American photographs / Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, John Szarkowski. San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Chronicle Books, c1994, plate 87.
- Published in: Executive order 9066: the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans [by] Maisie & Richard Conrat. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press for the California Historical Society [1972]
- Print not found in FSA-OWI J7647 or LOT 1801, 2004.
- No. A-35.
- Original negative is at the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA # 210-G-A35.
- Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).
- Published in: Dorothea Lange : American photographs / Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, John Szarkowski. San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Chronicle Books, c1994, plate 87.
- Published in: Executive order 9066: the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans [by] Maisie & Richard Conrat. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press for the California Historical Society [1972]
- Print not found in FSA-OWI J7647 or LOT 1801, 2004.
EEC Creators
EEC Source Month
March
EEC Source Year
1942
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