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A curfew of 8 pm had the Japanese colony at home and obeying the law, according to a Seattle police officer. A photo of Aki Kato pointing to a clock at a drug store indicated that there were about 7 minutes to go before all Japanese had to be at…

Photos show the Owens Valley in California where reportedly 60,000 Japanese were to be located at a camp called Manzanar. One photo shows the camp barracks with the mountains in the background; another shows people lining up to register; and a third…

Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia, California was being prepared for use as a temporary evacuation center for Japanese evacuees as housing was being constructed for the new arrivals.

An army sentry looks toward three Japanese Americans outside Anderson's store on Bainbridge Island where registration was taking place.

Japanese Americans on Bainbridge Island prepared to leave their homes on the Island as they filled out registration papers. Two photographs showed one picture with an older man and youth, while another showeed a little girl with a registration form.

Four men sat in contemplation as they talked about the immiment evacuation that was to take place soon on Bainbridg Island. in a photograph. in a Seattle newsplaper.

A photograph showed May Katayama, a Bainbridge Island florist, being fingerprinted as she registered for eventual ebvacuation from the Island.

Construction workers were busily building homes at the Manzanar camp site in Owens Valley, California where a large contingent of West Coast Japanese were to be placed.

A photograph showed Johnny Nakata , grocery owner, cutting some meat as he explained that he wanted someone to take over his business while he's gone .Another photograph showed Rev. Kihachi Hirakawa at the altar of the church he built with his own…

Evacuation from Southern California began as some 1,000 Japanese went either by car caravan or train to the Manzanar camp in Owens Valley, California.