A Collection Of Six Compelling Press Photographs Documenting Various Aspects Of Several Japanese-American Citizens Whose Lives Were Irrevocably Uprooted By Executive Order #9066 That Authorized The Federal Government To Place Japanese-American Citizens Into Internment Camps

VARIOUS NEWS AGENCIES

Publication: News Picture Agencies, 1942 -1945, Various Cities, 1942-1945

JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMP PHOTOGRAPHS. Photo #1. "Model planes found in Jap home. Long beach, Califo. – Los Angeles Police, as they confronted a Japanese alien with model airplanes found in his home, during the removal, recently, of several hundred enemy aliens from naval and defense areas near Los Angeles harbor. 2/3/42" Photo #2. "Santa Cruz, California ... Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on the West Coast made a spectacular haul yesterday when they raided the beach home of George Nakamura, an alien Japanese. Confiscated in his home, according to reports, were sixty-nine packing cases containing hundreds of vari-colored skyrockets, flares and torches - all of Japanese manufacturers. 3/4/42" Photo #3. "Out to see the rest of the world for the first time. This young resident, born at Poston, leaves with his parents at the closing of the center, in September, 1945. After the final plans have been mad, boxes packed, and grants picked up, the residents of Poston are at last ready to leave the center. Now that so many of their friends have gone out before them, it is with a feeling of anticipation rather than one of sorrow that the evacuees prepare to leave the place - which for three years has been home to them. Sept. 1945" Photo #4. "New York, July 11 - - Japs on way to internment - - Japanese, taken into custody in Europe, sit in chairs on a harbor boat here today after being removed from the troopship West Point which brought 33 Jap citizens, one of them an ambassador, from the continent. They will be taken to a place of quarantine and then to a place of internment." Photo #5. "Life at Alien Reception Center, Manzanar, California - Hiroshi Neeno, mail co-ordinator at the Owens Valley Alien Reception Center, delivers mail to Miss Fusako Mizutani. When the camp is full, there will be fifty mail carriers on the job, with eleven sub postal stations thruout the camp. Note sign on house listing occupants." Photo #6. "A general view of the northwest section of camp No. 2 of the Gila River Relocation Center." Widely regarded as one of America's saddest moments, Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, allowed the federal government to incarcerate Japanese Americans in relocation centers, during World War II. Two-thirds of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States, and many had their property confiscated by the federal government. All photographs have sharp contrast and are in very good+ condition.

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