File:Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942 - 3a24566v.jpg

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Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Dorothea Lange  (1895–1965)  wikidata:Q230673 q:en:Dorothea Lange
 
Dorothea Lange
Alternative names
Birth name: Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; Dorothea Nutzhorn; Dorothea Lange Taylor; Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange; Dorothea Lange
Description American-German journalist, photojournalist, photographer, documentarian and artist
Date of birth/death 26 May 1895 Edit this at Wikidata 11 October 1965 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hoboken San Francisco
Work location
United States of America; San Francisco Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q230673
Title
Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942
Description

The full caption for this photograph reads: Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at [401 - 403 Eighth] and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

Summary: Photograph shows the Wanto Co. store located at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California. The business was owned by the Matsuda family. Tatsuro Matsuda, a University of California graduate, commissioned and installed the "I am an American" sign. (Source: researcher R. Yee, Oakland Museum of California, 2017) Lange took this photograph while working for the War Relocation Authority, and the OWI acquired a copy for its own files.
Depicted place Oakland, California
Date March 1942
date QS:P571,+1942-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium Gelatin silver print
institution QS:P195,Q131454
, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
Accession number
  • Library of Congress Control Number: 2004665381
  • Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-23602 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Lot 1801 (266)
  • More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at https://loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/
Notes Original caption misidentified location of store as being at "13th and Franklin streets". Business directories, order forms and telephone directories list address of Wanto Co. store as 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets. (Source: researcher R. Yee, Oakland Museum of California, 2017)
Print not found in FSA-OWI J7647 or LOT 1801, 2004.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3a24566.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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