Civil War, Visual History Wall Map, Prepared by Civic Education Service, Washington, DC, 1966.
In David Rumsey Map Collection, accessed through Digital Public Library of America
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Following evacuation orders, this store, at 13th and Franklin Streets, was closed. The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the I AM AN AMERICAN sign on the store front on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorothea -- Oakland, California. 3/13/42
War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlemen, Series 14: Preevacuation. UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library; image fom <a href="http://oac.cdlib.org/">Online Archive of California</a>.
