U.S. National Archives photos from the 1940s
1,644 photos, in date order; 841–900 on this page. Photos taken by federal employees as part of their duties are US government works and not under copyright. About the collection
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Third grade students working on their arithmetic.
1942-07-01
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at.
1942-07-02
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. This evacuee of Japanese ancestry spends most of.
1942-07-02
Oakland, California. Mr. and Mrs. Kitagaki with two of their children at the Wartime Civil Control.
1942-05-06
San Leandro, California. Bunching young tomato plants on an Alameda County farm for one of the last.
1942-04-26
San Francisco, California. Mike Masaoka (second from left), national secretary and field executive.
1942-04-25
Hayward, California. Grandfather of Japanese ancestry waiting at local park for the arrival of evac.
1942-05-08
Centerville, California. Harry Konda leaves the quarters of the Japanese American Citizens League o.
1942-05-09
Turlock, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrived at Turlock Assembly. Evacuees will be h.
1942-05-02
Mountain View, California. Scene in orchard of 20-acre farm in Santa Clara County, California, befo.
1942-04-18
San Francisco, California. Owners of Japanese ancestry board windows of their stores on Post Street.
1942-04-05
Mountain View, California. Mrs. Ryohitsu Shibuya, wife of successful chrysanthemum grower, pictured.
1942-04-12
Centerville, California. Early comers arrive at evacuation meeting place in this Alameda County far.
1942-05-09
Stockton, California. Weeding celery field on industrialized ranch in the Delta region, prior to ev.
1942-04-10
Oakland, California. Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry piled on the sidewalk. The Greyhound.
1942-05-06
Photograph of Baggage Belonging to Evacuees of Japanese Ancestry Ready to Be Loaded into Moving Vans
1942-05-06
Stockton, California. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending their forst day at this Asse.
1942-05-19
Hayward, California. The Negi family, operators of a forty-acre intensively cultivated, leased truc.
1942-05-05
Oakland, California. Young evacuee of Japanese ancestry guarding the family belongings near the War.
1942-05-06
San Bruno, California. Portrait of a youth of Japanese ancestry from a farming district in central.
1942-06-16
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Farm crew of which Johnny Fukazawa is foreman. T.
1942-06-30
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. View of barracks at this War Relocation Authority.
1942-06-30
Sacramento, California. Masamichi Suzuki, roommate of Harvey Itano, is leaing his barrack room at t.
1942-05-20
Woodland, California. Farm families of Japanese ancestry waiting at the railroad station for the sp.
1942-05-20
Mission San Jose, California. High School girl of Japanese ancestry assisting her family in the str.
1942-05-05
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Irrigating corn field on the farm project at this.
1942-06-30
Byron, California. Laborers of Japanese ancestry are returning to large-scale asparagus ranch after.
1942-04-28
San Francisco, California. Awaiting registration for evacuation at Wartime Civil Control Administra.
1942-04-04
Centerville, California. Grandmother of farm family awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese an.
1942-05-09
Mountain View, Califronia. Henry Mitarai, age 36, successful large-scale farm operator with his fam.
1942-03-30
Woodland, California. Household goods belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry, stacked for stora.
1942-05-20
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Cultivating cornfield on the project farm at this.
1942-06-30
San Francisco, California. Father of Dave Tatsuno who has been a merchant in San Francisco for fort.
1942-04-04
San Francisco, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry boarding buses which will take them to Tan.
1942-04-29
Byron, California. Families of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from Contra Costa County, await bus whi.
1942-05-02
Byron, California. These families of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from farms in Contra Costa County.
1942-05-02
Turlock, California. Families of Japanese ancestry at the Turlock Assembly center. Their baggage w.
1942-05-02
Oakland, California. Boarding a bus at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station for Tanfora.
1942-05-06
Oakland, California. Residents of Japanese ancestry congregated at Wartime Civil Control Administra.
1942-05-06
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are enjoying a base.
1942-07-02
San Francisco, California. With the the owner scheduled to be evacuated, a store front is boarded o.
1942-04-07
San Francisco, California. The family unit is kept intact in various phases of evacuation of person.
1942-04-06
San Francisco, California. In response to the Army's Exclusion Order Number 20, residents of Japane.
1942-04-23
Mountain View, California. Mother of six children born in this country. Before evacuation, the fam.
1942-04-18
Hayward, California. Two children of the Mochida family who, with their parents, are awaiting evacu.
1942-05-08
Woodland, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry from this rich agricultural district are on the.
1942-05-20
Florin, California. This 23 year old Nisei soldier volunteered for army service July 10, 1941 and i.
1942-05-11
Sacramento, California. Preparations are being made for evacuation two days hence of all residents.
1942-05-11
Sacramento, California. A resident of Japanese ancestry seen in front of the grocery store of which.
1942-05-11
San Bruno, California. A sign at the main entrance of the Tanforan Assembly center, through which a.
1942-06-16
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. In the lath house of the guyaule rubber experimen.
1942-06-28
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee girls practicing the songs they learned i.
1942-06-03
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A view of the Manzanar Relocation center showing.
1942-07-01
Woodland, Yolo County, California. Farm family of Japanese ancestry see the train approaching down.
1942-05-20
Mountain View, California. These ranch houses are typical in many rural sections where residents of.
1942-04-18
Florin, California. Strawberry truck farmer who came to the United States from Japan in 1902, is se.
1942-05-11
San Bruno, California. One of eighteen mess halls plastered with all manner of locally devised post.
1942-06-16
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making artificial flowers in the Art School at th.
1942-06-30
San Lorenzo, California. A farm youngster pictured two days before evacuation of persons of Japanes.
1942-05-05
Lodi, California. A family of Japanese ancestry lived in this house and operated the surrounding vi.
1942-05-14