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Title: Japanese Owned Grocery Store, Oakland
Creator: Dorothea Lange
Date Created and/or Issued: March 30, 1942
Publication Information: Oakland Museum of California
Contributing Institution: Oakland Museum of California
Collection: Lange (Dorothea) Collection
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Description: March 30, 1942 8th - Franklin St Oakland Japanese - owned Grocery Store. It has been closed. Owner voluntarily evacuated at the last moment before the "Freezing order" to Fresno where he has relatives. He is U C graduate, born in California. I asked him "who put up that sign?" He said "a sign painter but I paid for it, the day after Pearl Harbor" See also companion negative, made Aug '42 5 months later -
Type: image
Format: Photonegative Agfa Safety Film photography
Form/Genre: photonegative
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8q2nb39b
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Subject: World War II; store; grocery; Japanese American; sign; car; sidewalk; mail box; curb; street; 8th Street, Oakland; Franklin Street, Oakland; man; street lamp; Chinatown neighborhood

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