Japanese internment broadside

GLC06360

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GLC#
GLC06360
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
1942/05/03
Title
Japanese internment broadside
Place Written
Los Angeles, California
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 33.6 cm, Width: 21.6 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

This broadside, printed in Los Angeles, ordered "all persons of Japanese ancestry" to assemble for transport to detention camps. The document gives specific directions to families about what they could take with them-household and personal items limited to "that which can be carried by the individual or family group."

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