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DETAILS:Original Type 1 photograph, Acme News Service. Verso is dated December 8, 1941.
BACKGROUND: Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US government began the systematic removal of American citizens of Japanese ancestry from Fort MacArthur and Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor. Nearly all male heads of households were arrested by the FBI and taken away. The remaining 500 families (about 3,000 residents) were forced out shortly afterwards by American soldiers. After the residents were cleared out, the Navy bulldozed the community, leaving Terminal Island as the only West Coast Japanese settlement that vanished entirely
JAPANESE INTERNMENT: During World War II, 150,000 Americans of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in ten concentration camps in the United States, operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). Internment was intended to mitigate a security risk which Japanese Americans were believed to pose. The scale of the incarceration in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures undertaken against German and Italian Americans who numbered in the millions and of whom some thousands were interned, most of these non-citizens. Following the executive order, the entire West Coast was designated as a military exclusion area, and all Japanese Americans who were living there were taken to assembly centers before they were sent to concentration camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Arkansas. Similar actions were taken against individuals of Japanese descent in Canada. The internees were prohibited from taking more than they could carry into the camps, and many of them were forced to sell either some or all of their property, including their homes and their businesses. Inside the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire fences and were patrolled by armed guards, the internees frequently lived in overcrowded barracks which contained minimal furnishings.
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Established 1987
Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper itemswith a particularfocus on historical photographs.We are among the largest sellers ofvintage photographs in the US.We invite everyone to visit our storeto see our entireinventory.
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