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A census of Japanese students at the University of Washington was to take place with the eventual goal of having them transferred to colleges in the East. A conference held earlier in California at the University of California had various university…

Copies of two photographs that appeared in a Seattle newspaper showed a Japanese American woman carrying her luggage to the outside of her house and another showed soldiers guarding the Eagle Harbor ferry dock from where the Japanese on Bainbridge…

Bainbridge Island's Japanese residents got rid of their personal property by selling them to the public and vegetables were left growing until they could be harvested by others as the Japanese residents of the island prepared to leave.

A photocopy of a picture that appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shows the Nakamura family in an army truck being evacuated from Bainbridge Island with a soldier with a bayonet sitting with them.

Japanese/Japanese Americans were reminded of the deadline to turn in contraband articles.

Japanese/Japanese American residents of Bainbridge Island were removed from the island and sent by ferry to Seattle where they boarded a train for Manzanar, California. Photos accompanying the article showed a caravan of army trucks and a mother with…

A photo in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed Japanese/Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island being escorted by soldiers to a waiting train on their way to an evacuation reception center in Manzanar, California.

The second order for evacuation involved the Los Angeles harbor area where there are about 3,000 Japanese residents. They will be moved to the Santa Anita racetrack during a three day period. In another announcement, the Wartime Civil Control…

The army announced that certain classes of aliens of German and Italian descent were exempted from any evacuation, and a handful of Japanese aliens were also included if they were in places such as hospitals or institutions; but otherwise, all…

Residents of Japanese ancestry prepared to leave Bainbridge Island today, March 30, 1942 as all arrangements had been made to have the army evacuate them. They were to take a ferry to Seattle, then board a train for Manzanar.