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TITLE Train leaving Woodland, CA, for Merced Assembly Center DESCRIPTION Train leaving Woodland, CA, for Merced Assembly Center Original caption: "Woodland, California. Ten cars of evacuees of Japanese ancestry are now aboard and the doors are closed. Their Caucasian friends and the staff of the Wartime Civil Control Administration stations are watching the departure from the platform. Evacuees are leaving their homes and ranches, in a rich agricultural district, bound for Merced Assembly center about 125 miles away." CREDIT Dorothea Lange Courtey of National Archives DATE May 20, 1942 |
