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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Line of evacuees at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese, headed by a mother holding a small girl, begin to come by serving area to select food from the 7 staff members ready to help.
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.
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.
Small boy is receiving inoculation from a nurse, while another nurse reassures him; small girl awaits her turn at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.
Medical staff member looks at throat of a small boy at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Boy is wearing a sailor suit and clutching a teddy bear. Photo was taken outdoors.
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.
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.
View of part of dishwashing operation at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Five staff members are involved stacking metal plates and using dishwashing machine.
Group seen walking toward camera; a man, woman & child stand beside a building at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. What appears to be Club House ot Santa Anita Race Track, is seen in background.
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.