Centerville, California

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School girls await evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Irrigator, who, with 595 persons of Japanese ancestry, is leaving this rural district this morning for an assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34.

Members of farming families are pictured as they left for Centerville, one mile away, to board evacuation bus. These women worked at so-called stoop labor, chiefly cultivating tomatoes. Farmers and other evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be given opportunities to follow their callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

Harry Konda leaves the quarters of the Japanese American Citizens League of this township for the last time. He is about to board the first bus for the Tanforan Assembly Center to which all people of Japanese ancestry of this community are being evacuated on this day. He is wearing his identification tag.

Evacuees of Japanese ancestry waiting in front of the Japanese American Citizens League quarters in evacuation buses which will take them to the Tanforan Assembly Center.

A grandfather awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

A farming family awaits evacuation bus. Farmers and other evacuees will be given opportunities to follow their callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

This girl, who worked as a strawberry picker on an Alameda County farm, awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

This farm youngster and members of her family await evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Members of farm families await evacuation bus. Farmers and other evacuees will be given opportunities to follow their callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

Awaiting evacuation bus, while personal effects are packed aboard moving vans. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Members of farm families board evacuation buses. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

This farming couple awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration



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