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Image Title: Los Angeles, Calif., April 1942 - A Shop Just Before Japanese Were Evacuated From Little Tokyo

Creator: Albers, Clem, phtographer

Date: 1942 April.

Summary: Shop window of Asahi Dye Works with sign reading: "Closing, we won't take it to Owens Valley for U."

Notes: Caption reads: Last call to pick up suits and gowns before shades were pulled down in "Little Tokyo," in Los Angeles, prior to evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry. Many were assigned to Manzanar, War Relocation Authority Center, in Owens Valley, Calif.

Subjects: Japanese Americans--California--Los Angeles--1940-1950
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles--1940-1950
Windows--California--Los Angeles--1940-1950
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Los Angeles

Original Media: Photograph

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