Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Dorothea Lange
Title:
Japanese Owned Grocery Store, Oakland
Collection Title Date:
1919-1965
Date:
March 30, 1942
Materials:
Agfa Safety Film
Materials:
photography
Current Location:
Oakland Museum of California
Address:
Oakland, CA 94607
Object ID:
LNG42015.2
Provenance:
Copyright the Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California,
City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
Object Type:
photonegative
Heading:
Notes
Notes:
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 -
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft8q2nb39 b

Japanese Owned Grocery Store, Oakland