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INTERNMENT CAMP PHOTOGRAPHY
On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the Wartime Relocation Authority to transport from the West Coast some 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry to ten interior centers in states including California, Arizona, Idaho, Arkansas, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Here within perimeters surrounded by barb wire and guarded by military police, the Japanese Americans were detained in camps until 1945 and 1946 on grounds of national security.

Courtesy of the Japanese American Service Committee Legacy Center, Chicago
 
Block 20 Gals leaving for the Outside World. Rohwer Relocation Center. McGehee, Arkansas. 1945. Ryoko Kobayashi Papers.
  
Friends. Tule Lake Relocation Center. Tulelake, California 1943. Dorothy and Hiroshi Kaneko Papers.
Friends. Tule Lake Relocation Center. Tulelake, California 1943. Dorothy and Hiroshi Kaneko Papers.

Castlerock. Tule Lake Relocation Center. Tulelake, California circa 1943. Dorothy and Hiroshi Kaneko Papers.
 
[Picnic] on Castlerock. Tule Lake Relocation Center. Tulelake, California. July 1943. Dorothy and Hiroshi Kaneko Papers.
  
Baby. Minidoka Relocation Center. Hunt, Idaho. November 1944. Dorothy and Hiroshi Kaneko.
 
Baby and Girl. Minidoka Relocation Center. Hunt, Idaho. November 1944. Dorothy and Hiroshi Kaneko Papers.
Hideo Jack Konman in U.S. uniform attending father's funeral. Rohwer Relocation Center. McGehee Arkansas. March 1945. Konman-Matsukawa Family Papers.
Eiko "Vicky" Konman in front of barracks. Rohwer Relocation Center. McGehee, Arkansas. 1945. Konman-Matsukawa Family Papers.

 
INTERNMENT CAMP DOCUMENTS:
Click to enlarge and view document captions - Courtesy of the Japanese American Service Committee Legacy Center, Chicago

Civilian Exclusion Order, April 1, 1942. , page 1
Civilian Exclusion Order, April 1, 1942. , page 2.
Envelope from M. Ohno to [Ryoko] Kobayashi. Santa Anita Assembly Center, Arcadia, California. September 1942. Ryoko Kobayashi Papers.
Notice of [Work] Assignment. Rohwer Relcation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. June 1945. Ryoko Kobayashi Papers.
Santa Anita Pacemaker [information booklet]. Santa Anita Assembly Center, Arcadia, California 1942 Frances Chickahisa Papers.
Red Cross Rohwer Relocation Center [service booklet]. Rohwer Relocation Center. McGehee, Arkansas. 1945. Frances Chikahisa Papers.


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