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Original WRA caption: San Bruno, Calif.--Families of Japanese ancestry arrive at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration. April 29, 1942. San Bruno, California. Photographer Dorothea Lange.

Courtesy of WRA no. C-141, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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