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Original WRA caption: Near view of horse-stall, left from the days when what is now Tanforan Assembly Center was the famous Tanforan Race Track. Most of these stalls have been converted into family living quarters for Japanese. June 16, 1942. San Bruno, California. Photographer Dorothea Lange.

Courtesy of WRA no. C-630, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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