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.
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.
Evacuees of Japanese ancestry arriving a Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese from San Pedro. They are lined up with their vehicles loaded and waiting to be checked in. Note road to Chantry Flats seen over roof tops.
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.
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.
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.
Helmeted soldiers stand guard as a group of Japanese who have just arrived on Pacific Electric Rail cars prepare to go to assigned quarters at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. One young mother sits on a bench with her arm around her baby.
Two women stand inside a small room at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese; the one on the right is hanging clothes on a line, the other stands with her arms folded. There is a parasol on the floor.
A doctor checks hand of evacuees as they line up near Pacific Electric Railroad cars which brought them to Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Military personnel look on.
Fourteen soldiers stand guard alongside Pacific Electric Tracks as a contingent of Japanese people, who have just arrived on these railroad cars, prepares to go to their assigned quarters at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.
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.
View of small group of Japanese who have just arrived on Pacific Electric Railroad cars on right. On the left can be seen approximately eight helmeted military guards standing at ready in front of Barracks-like quarters people will live in at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.
Three women, two holding babies, and two small children are seen standing in front of what appears to be a wash room area at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Clothes hang on a line behind them.
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.
Two women and a man stand by a counter holding wooden milk crate with milk bottles in it. They are filling a thermos with a clear liquid. Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.
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.