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Copyright JANM
photograph
Copyright JANM
Copyright JANM

photograph

Date1942
Mediumpaper
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of Susan K. Mochizuki and Ann K. Uyeda
Object number2006.133.10
Description1 photographic print: b&w; 3-1/2x5" snapshot photo of a parked military police jeep with a Japanese American woman in the passenger seat with a pen and clipboard on her lap and an armed military man leaning into the jeep. The driver and 4 passengers in the back seat are military men in uniform. An official in a hat and suit is on the left side of the jeep and a man in hat and jacket is observing from the right side. A line of busses are parked on the opposite side of the street in front of 1 story storefront buildings waiting to take evacuees to Santa Anita Assembly Center.

Caption on back: Just counting. April 1942.

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