Following the evacuation orders, this store, at 13th and Franklin Streets, was closed. The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the I AM AN AMERICAN sign on the store front on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Photographer: Lange, Dorothea
Oakland, CA. 03/13/1942

Source: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, WAR no. A-35, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.