Children Watching Train
notes: label: Description
content: This picture shows little children watching Japanese Americans boarding a train. They are still confined behind a barbed wire fence, and shows how all Japanese Americans were incarcerated, even the small children. Many prisoners were forced to move from camp to camp, and scenes like this where trains loading Japanese Americans moving them to a different camp was not uncommon. The prisoners who had to stay at the camp lined up along the barbed wire fence to watch and say goodbye to fellow prisoners and friends that were being relocated. There's a stark contrast between the innocence of these small children and the militaristic, crude scene of barbed wire and the movement of the prisoners.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: gift of Ron Mori
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0184.28
label: accession number
content: 2016.0184
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0184.28
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Name
content: Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm