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Inmates Came from Los Angeles

90 percent of the evacuees came from the greater Los Angeles area. While others came from Stockton, California and Bainbridge Island, Washington.

The full caption for this photograph by the WRA reads:

Los Angeles, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry entraining for Manzanar, California, 250 miles away, where they are now housed in a War Relocation Authority center.