File:Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942 - 3a24566v.jpg
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Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q230673 |
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Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942 |
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The full caption for this photograph reads: Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at [401 - 403 Eighth] and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war |
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Depicted place | Oakland, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
March 1942 date QS:P571,+1942-03-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
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Medium | Gelatin silver print | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q131454
, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection |
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Original caption misidentified location of store as being at "13th and Franklin streets". Business directories, order forms and telephone directories list address of Wanto Co. store as 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets. (Source: researcher R. Yee, Oakland Museum of California, 2017) Print not found in FSA-OWI J7647 or LOT 1801, 2004. |
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This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright. |
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