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Via Library of Congress. Lot 1801 has no known restrictions on publication

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

CALL NUMBER: LOT 1801 [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-23602 (b&w film copy neg.)

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1942 Mar.

CREATOR:

Lange, Dorothea, photographer.

NOTES:

No. A-35.

Original negative is at the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA # 210-G-A35.

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.

SUBJECTS:

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--San Francisco. Grocery stores--California--San Francisco--1940-1950. Japanese Americans--Civil rights--1940-1950.

FORMAT:

Photographic prints 1940-1950.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a24566 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a24566

CONTROL #: 2004665381

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