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Original WRA caption: Attendants register arrivals at Santa Anita Park Assembly Center and assign them, family by family, to new quarters. The family unit is kept intact. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry are transferred later to War Relocation Authority Centers for the duration. Arcadia, California. April 5, 1942. Photographer Clem Albers.

Courtesy of WRA no. -425, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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