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
Lange, Dorothea,
photographer
still image
graphic
government publication
Gelatin silver prints-1940-1950.
xxu
1942
monographic
1942 Mar
eng
1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Photograph shows the Wanto Co. store located at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California. The business was owned by the Matsuda family. Tatsuro Matsuda, a University of California graduate, commissioned and installed the "I am an American" sign. (Source: researcher R. Yee, Oakland Museum of California, 2017) Lange took this photograph while working for the War Relocation Authority, and the OWI acquired a copy for its own files.
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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)
No. A-35.
Original negative is at the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA # 210-G-A35.
Published in: Dorothea Lange : American photographs / Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, John Szarkowski. San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Chronicle Books, c1994, plate 87.
Published in: Executive order 9066: the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans [by] Maisie & Richard Conrat. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press for the California Historical Society [1972]
Published in: "War" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).
United States.
Wartime Civil Control Administration
1940-1950
Japanese Americans
Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945
Japanese Americans
California
Oakland
Japanese Americans
Civil rights
1940-1950
Grocery stores
California
Oakland
1940-1950
Automobiles
California
Oakland
1940-1950
Loss of property
California
Oakland
1940-1950
LOT 1801 [item]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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