2010.54.10461

• asian american
• ethnicity and race

This poster features black text starting at the top center with "Western Defense Command And Fourth Army / Wartime Civil Control Administration / Presidio of San Francisco, California / May 5, 1942" and followed by "Instructions / To All Persons Of / Japanese / Ancestry / Living in the Following Area:" in much larger text. The rest of the page contains small black text describing the area in question and instructing people of Japanese ancestry to gather their belongings for evacuation and send a representative to the "Civil Control Station" at "1530 Buchanan Street, / San Francisco, California." The page is signed with the typed name "J.L. DeWitt / Lieutenant General, U.S. Army / Commanding" in the bottom right corner.