Japanese American Internment
During World War II
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Naval dispatch announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. View PDF (311 KB)	President Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan. View PDF (453 KB)	Oakland, Calif., Feb. 1942. View PDF (427 KB)
Civilian exclusion order #5 View PDF (319 KB)	Los Angeles, California. A store in Little Tokyo. View PDF (170 KB)	Japanese Independent congregational church attending Easter services prior to evacuation View PDF (367 KB)
Japanese residents at Civil Control station for registration, San Francisco. View PDF (282 KB)	Evacuees of Japanese descent being inoculated as they registered for evacuation. View PDF (1 MB)	Santa Anita reception center, Registering Japanese-Americans as they arrive. View PDF (169 KB)
Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus. View PDF (328 KB)	Japanese-American child who will go with his parents to Owens Valley. View PDF (164 KB)	Entrance to Manzanar. View PDF (1.3 MB)
Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] View PDF (556 KB)	Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. View PDF (152 KB)	School children, Manzanar. View PDF (159 KB)
Baseball game, Manzanar. View PDF (1.5 MB)	Roy Takeno reading paper in front of office. View PDF (1.4 MB)	Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and patient Toyoko Ioki, Manzanar. View PDF (1.3 MB)
Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar. View PDF (269 KB)	Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, Tule Lake. View PDF (366 KB)	Rupert, Idaho. Japanese-Americans taking down their flag in the evening. View PDF (173 KB)
Japanese enlistment. Waipahu, Hawaii. View PDF (122 KB)	Administering the oath to four AJA volunteers. Kauai, Hawaii. View PDF (2.2 MB)	Herbert Kondo, an AJA volunteer, with his father and mother. The elder Kondo is a veteran of World War I. View PDF (2.6 MB)
Japanese-American volunteers. View PDF (114 KB)

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