April 30, 1942: Buses line up at 23rd Street and Vermont Avenue to carry 600 Japanese to the temporary internment camp at Santa Anita racetrack. This photo was published in the May 1, 1942, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gordon Wallace / Los Angeles Times
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March 21, 1942: Japanese Americans on a bus to Manzanar internment camp in the Owens Valley. This photo was published March 22, 1942.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
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Feb. 4, 1942: Eigiro Kawana, Japanese fisherman, is detained by an FBI agent in San Pedro. Kawana expected the visit as he had packed a suitcase and wore warm clothing. Published Feb. 5, 1942.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
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March 30, 1942: Two Japanese women get information from a Japanese clerk regarding plans for their removal. The photo was published March 31, 1942, with a story announcing the removal of all Japanese from the Los Angeles Harbor area.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Al Humphreys / Los Angeles Times
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March 1942: A Japanese-owned store has closing-out sale.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ray Graham / Los Angeles Times
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March 24, 1942: Shoppers crowd a Japanese-owned store at 1st and San Pedro streets as owners are forced to sell stock at low prices before being evacuated to internment camps. This photo was published in the March 25, 1942, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Andrew Hugh Arnott / Los Angeles Times
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March 6, 1942: A hardware store in Little Tokyo displays guns and knives for sale alongside a pro-American Red Cross poster. Because of the Japanese Internment, stores in Little Tokyo had to sell merchandise at low prices. This photo was published in the March 7, 1942, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ray Graham / Los Angeles Times
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March 23, 1942: Military police stand by their Jeep during a halt in the convoy of Japanese internees. One thousand Japanese internees traveling in 200 cars and trucks were stopped somewhere in the Mojave Desert while en route to the new Manzanar camp. This photo was published in the March 24, 1942, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
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March 24, 1942: Two small children of Japanese evacuees from San Pedro sit atop luggage piled in kindergarten room at Hongwanjo Buddhist Temple in Little Toyko. This photo was published in the March 25, 1942, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Andrew Hugh Arnott / Los Angeles Times
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March 23, 1942: A Japanese man says goodby before a train leaves for Manzanar internment camp. Many in the first groups sent to Manzanar had construction backgrounds and helped build the camp. Their families joined them later. This photo was published in the March 24, 1942, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Andrew Hugh Arnott / Los Angeles Times
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Feb. 23, 1942: Japanese residents of Terminal Island load a truck after the U.S. Navy ordered the area cleared. About 1,000 Japanese were ordered off Terminal Island. This photo was published in the Feb. 24, 1942, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
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June 6, 1943: A panorama made of three prints shows Poston, the Japanese relocation center near Parker, Ariz. This image was published in the June 8, 1943, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles Times
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June 6, 1943: Family unit in the baracks at Poston Japanese Relocation Center near Parker, Ariz. This photo was published in the June 8, 1943, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Watson / Los Angeles Times
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