Japanese-American Grocery Store
About this photograph
Dorothea Lange, March 1942.
- Date created
- March 1942
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by Library of Congress
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A large sign reading “I AM AN AMERICAN,” hangs over the storefront windows of a Japanese-American grocery store in San Francisco, California. The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the owner hung this sign. Later, the store was closed and the owner was placed in a War Relocation Authority center until the end of World War II. This photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange.
