Keywords: Byron, California. As families of Japanese ancestry evacuated from farms in Contra Costa County, th . . . - NARA - 537455.jpg Scope and content The full caption for this photograph reads Byron California As families of Japanese ancestry evacuated from farms in Contra Costa County they gathered at Wartime Civil Control Administration station and awaited buses for assembly center at Turlock Fairgrounds 65 miles away Evacuees will be transferred later from assembly centers to War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration Boy in background is a spectator General notes 537455 Local identifier 210-G-C100 Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority 02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946 NARA-Author Lange Dorothea 1895-1965 Photographer 1372774 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1942-05-02 Record group Record Group 210 Records of the War Relocation Authority 1941 - 1989 Record group ARC 537 Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority compiled 1942 - 1945 Series ARC 536000 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-210-G-C100 Other versions <gallery> File Byron _California _As_families_of_Japanese_ancestry_evacuated_from_farms_in_Contra_Costa_County _th_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_537455 tif tif File Byron _California _As_families_of_Japanese_ancestry_evacuated_from_farms_in_Contra_Costa_County _th_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_537455 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange Japanese American internment processing in Byron California |