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A farmer being interviewed at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station three days before mass removal, photographer Dorothea Lange, Apr. 28, 1942, Byron, California.

Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, Ctrl. #: NWDNS-210-G-C366, NARA ARC #: 537699, WRA, Photographer Dorothea Lange

Densho ID: ddr-densho-151-242

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