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Byron, California. Field laborers of Japanese ancestry in front of Wartime Civil Control Administration station where they have come for instructions and assistance in regard to their evacuation due in three days under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 24. This order affects 850 persons in this area. The men are now waiting for the truck which will take them, with the rest of the field crew, back to the large-scale delta ranch.

Byron, California. Field laborers of Japanese ancestry in front of Wartime Civil Control Administration station where they have come for instructions and assistance in regard to their evacuation due in three days under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 24. This order affects 850 persons in this area. The men are now waiting for the truck which will take them, with the rest of the field crew, back to the large-scale delta ranch.

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Byron, California. Field laborers of Japanese ancestry in front of Wartime Civil Control Administration station where they have come for instructions and assistance in regard to their evacuation due in three days under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 24. This order affects 850 persons in this area. The men are now waiting for the truck which will take them, with the rest of the field crew, back to the large-scale delta ranch.
ArtistAmerican, 1895–1965
Printer
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Byron, California. Field laborers of Japanese ancestry in front of Wartime Civil Control Administration station where they have come for instructions and assistance in regard to their evacuation due in three days under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 24. This order affects 850 persons in this area. The men are now waiting for the truck which will take them, with the rest of the field crew, back to the large-scale delta ranch.
DateApril 28, 1942, printed July 2025
Place depictedByron, California, United States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 9 × 11 9/16 in. (22.8 × 29.4 cm)
 Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (28 × 35.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Sharon and Del Zogg
Object number2025.718
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, Berkley, California, 1942 [1]; purchased by MFAH, 2025 [2].

[1] At the time of this photograph, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) worked for War Relocation Authority to document the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans. The photos she took were impounded by the U.S. government and not released to the public until 2006. This photograph was taken on May 9, 1942.

[2] Due to the sensitive nature of the images, prints from this time are exceedingly rare, although the original negative has been preserved at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, Maryland, since 1942. The negatives are now considered public domain. This print is from No. 537774 in NARA records.

Published References Lange, Dorothea. Impounded : Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. Edited by Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okihiro. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[No inscriptions recto or verso]

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