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Title
Crowd waits to board a train for "evacuation" at Terminal Island
Creator
Risinger, Joseph
photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-02-02
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
HSLB Digital Collections are for educational and research use only. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Historical Society of Long Beach. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Historical Society of Long Beach as the owner of the physical materials, and does not include permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Description
A large crowd of Japanese American people waiting while a military police officer helps the onto a train for "evacuation" at Terminal Island.
The Risinger Photograph Collection consists of prints and negatives taken by Joseph Risinger (10/22/1913 - 03/24/2007). Risinger was a staff photographer for the Long Beach Independent and Press-Telegram papers from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 4 x 5 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
hslb_rpc_0058
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/36743
Subject
Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--'Evacuation Day
Place
Terminal Island, California
Source
Historical Society of Long Beach, Long Beach, California
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Risinger Photograph Collection

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