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lickystickypickyme: Upper: A large sign reads ‘I am American’ outside a store at 13th and Franklin, San Francisco.  This was taken five months after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor and was a response to the knee jerk response of many Americans to the presence of people of Japanese descent in their midst.  The store was closed and its owner, a Berkeley graduate was interned away from the west coast for the duration of the war. Lower: Lange’s images of the internment of Japanese Americans were considered so provocative that the army impounded them until the end of the war.  Here, two children await evacuation by bus. The sandwich one is holding is a gift from a woman from a local church sourcePictures: Dorothea Lange./ Dorothea Lange Depression Era series.

lickystickypickyme:

Upper: A large sign reads ‘I am American’ outside a store at 13th and Franklin, San Francisco.  This was taken five months after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor and was a response to the knee jerk response of many Americans to the presence of people of Japanese descent in their midst.  The store was closed and its owner, a Berkeley graduate was interned away from the west coast for the duration of the war.

Lower: Lange’s images of the internment of Japanese Americans were considered so provocative that the army impounded them until the end of the war.  Here, two children await evacuation by bus. The sandwich one is holding is a gift from a woman from a local church

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Pictures: Dorothea Lange.

/ Dorothea Lange Depression Era series.

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    It always gets me, in these photos, that the families are so well groomed before they’re boarded up
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    The Depression Era Photography...Japanese-Americans during WWII. I have a friend who works...
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    store, San Francisco, 1942;...awaiting “evacuation bus” to internment camp, Hayward, 1942.
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