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Original WRA caption: Noon on a hot day at the Stockton Assembly Center, which is a converted fairgrounds. This photograph shows the old race track. This center has been opened a week and evacuees will arrive daily until the capacity of 5,000 is reached. May 19, 1942. Photographer Dorothea Lange.

Courtesy of WRA no. C-393, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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