"Japanese Arrive at Reception Center -- Ordered from their homes in Los Angeles by the Army as a security measure, these Japanese, some citizens and others aliens, await assignment to community homes which they will occupy in the alien reception center at Manzanar, California. They arrived Mar. 23, 1942, to help prepare the camp for other thousands till to come." -- caption on photograph.
"By train and by auto caravan, 1000 men of Japanese birth or Japanese ancestry left Los Angeles yesterday for evacuation camp at Manzanar in the Owens River Valley. A stern-faced soldier acts as traffic director. Smiling Japs wave farewell to L.A." -- caption on photograph.