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Photo, Print, Drawing Hayward, California, Two Children of the Mochida Family who, with Their Parents, Are Awaiting Evacuation.

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Title

  • Hayward, California, Two Children of the Mochida Family who, with Their Parents, Are Awaiting Evacuation.

Summary

  • In 1942, Executive Order 9066 ordered the removal of 110,000 civilians of Japanese descent, including 71,000 American citizens, from the western United States for placement in internment camps. The evacuees were suspected, without evidence, of being potential supporters of Japan, with which the United States was then at war. This photograph, taken by noted photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) for the government agency known as the War Relocation Authority, shows one family waiting to be taken away. Lange's notes on the photograph read: "Members of the Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus. Identification tags were used to aid in keeping a family unit intact during all phases of evacuation. Mochida operated a nursery and five greenhouses on a two-acre site in Eden Township."

Names

  • Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1942-05-08.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--California--Hayward
  • -  1942-05-08
  • -  Children
  • -  Civil rights
  • -  Concentration camps
  • -  Japanese Americans
  • -  World War, 1939-1945

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph (black and white).
  • -  Original resource at: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669756

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Chicago citation style:

Lange, Dorothea, Photographer. Hayward, California, Two Children of the Mochida Family who, with Their Parents, Are Awaiting Evacuation. California United States of America Hayward, 1942. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -05-08] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669756/.

APA citation style:

Lange, D. (1942) Hayward, California, Two Children of the Mochida Family who, with Their Parents, Are Awaiting Evacuation. California United States of America Hayward, 1942. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -05-08] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669756/.

MLA citation style:

Lange, Dorothea, Photographer. Hayward, California, Two Children of the Mochida Family who, with Their Parents, Are Awaiting Evacuation. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -05-08] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669756/>.