Photograph shows young Japanese couple receiving their registration record as first step in the evacuation of San Francisco. Evacuee registration, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Young Japanese couple receive their registration record as firt step in the evacuation of San Francisco, May 16, 1942. The same system and forms were used in registration in all evacuation operations." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-1664-PSF 1942-05-16; Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Men Paperwork Recording & registration Relocation camps Women Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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