Back to Results
Photograph
Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa waiting for bus during forced removal, 1942
Order an ImageThis image shows Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa, who had been married three months, awaiting their turn to board the bus for the train that will carry them to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in southern Idaho, where they would be incarcerated until 1945.
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration camps in Idaho and California until 1945.
Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration camps in Idaho and California until 1945.
Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number: 2000.107.098.22.01
Date: 1942
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107.98.23.01
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Other matching results
Dancers at Bon Odori festival, Seattle, July 24, 1982
Kiki Hagimori instructs Corey Ojima for Bon Odori, Seattle, July 19, 1983
Midori Sugawara in her room at Keiro Nursing Home, Seattle, April 16, 1985
Seafair royalty touring Japanese training ship, Seattle, June 7, 1985
Kotaka Uomoto at Nisei Veterans Hall, Seattle, September 21, 1988
Kichisaburo Ishimitsu and friends at redress ceremony, Seattle, October 14, 1990
Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island in back of military truck, March 31, 1942
Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa waiting for bus during forced removal, 1942
Child waiting to be taken to an incarceration camp during WWII, November 30, 1942
