Arriving automobiles and their occupants' luggage are checked. In this photo, seven Japanese men watch and wait during the check, also two women. Four authorities do the checking at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.
Group of new arrivals at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese prepare to unpack belongings into numbered quarters seen behind them. Three cars are being unloaded. About 16 Japanese can be seen in the vicinity. Pepper trees are seen in the area.
Camera focuses on young Japanese lady who is having her luggage inspected by police officers at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Four other people are seen in background of photo.
In this photo, one staff member in dark sweater leans on large table set up to check belongings of new arrivals to Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Approximately twelve Japanese wait for the check. Other staff members and police are standing about one large truck and two autos.
Thirteen newly arrived internees at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese, many of them small children. They are seen filing toward a processing point. Three staff members stand on right, identified by arm bands. Automobiles are lined up behind. Housing units are also shown. The word INDUCTION is written across bottom of photo.
Japanese lady stands on running board of a car that apparently has just brought her and some of her family with their few allowed belongings to the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Another car waits in line for the processing. Two Japanese men and a policeman stand nearby.
View almost due west from Santa Anita Race track Clubhouse roof over portion of housing put up for the evacuees at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Note training track in the center of photo. Beyond it can be seen houses in Santa Anita Village. This entire area became part of Fashion Park later. This photo, together with photos #655 and 656, form a panorama.
Three men, three women, and two children are seen walking on grounds of Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. The San Gabriel Mountains loom up behind them.
A Japanese couple watch as their luggage is inspected at a table at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Man is wearing a sweater-vest with name tag attached. On the side of table closest to camera is an officer in dark uniform. Conducting the inspection is an officer in tan uniform.
Staff member in dark leather jacket with arm band, talks with a seated man, probably father of the boy and girl who stand by, and husband of wife standing waiting their turn at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.
Seven cars and trucks are pulled up to housing units at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese and the people are busily unpacking and preparing to move in. About 19 people can be seen in the photo. The San Gabriel Mountains form a back drop.
Six men shoveling sand as part of cleaning up following construction at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Four ladies are seen coming down stairs.
Eleven newly-arrived Japanese line up for processing at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. One Japanese staff member is present as are ten soldiers standing guard.
Close-up view of one row of about 11 units of tarpaper covered housing put up for the evacuees at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Santa Anita Canyon can be seen in about the center of the mountains in the background.
Three women seen hanging clothes on clothesline inside one of the buildings at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. There is a Japanese parasol open on the floor by them.
Extremely long line of Japanese evacuees at Santa Anita Assembly Center queued up for an unknown purpose. Pepper tree foliage frames photo. There is a long housing unit seen on right side of photo.
Groups of six Japanese men seen hauling sand in a large wheel barrow and shoveling it. Santa Anita Race Track Club House is behind them. Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.
A group of Japanese evacuees at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese has gathered to watch a baseball game with both men and women on the teams. The west end of the Santa Anita Race Track Club House is seen in the background.
Seen in line to pick up metal food plates at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese, are a woman first, followed by 5 small children. A man in striped shirt stands behind children, and last in line is man with zippered jacket.