Boarding a train to the Merced Assembly Center

Families of Japanese ancestry with their baggage at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a special train which will take them to the Merced Assembly Center about 125 miles away.

Woodland, CA. 05/20/1942

Source: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, WRA no.-492, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Direct Edit