"Members of the Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus. Identification tags were used to aid in keeping a family unit intact during all phases of evacuation. Mochida operated a nursery and five greenhouses on a two-acre site in Eden Township." In 1942 Executive Order 9066 ordered the removal of 110,000 civilians of Japanese descent, including 71,000 American citizens, from the western United States, placing them in internment camps.
By Dorothea Lange, Hayward, California, May 8, 1942
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the War Relocation Authority
(210-GC-153) [VENDOR # 84]