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(JAPANESE INTERNMENT POSTER)

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(JAPANESE INTERNMENT POSTER)
"A rare relic from one of the darker periods in our nation's history, a 13"" x 22"" printed broadside from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration titled ""INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY..."", ordering their evacuation from a section of Los Angeles by Noon on April 24, 1942, and stating that ""...No Japanese person living in the above area will be permitted to change residence after 12 o'clock noon, P.W.T., Friday, April 24, 1942, without obtaining special permission from the representative of the Commanding General, Southern California Sector... Such permits will only be granted for the purpose of uniting members of a family, or in cases of grave emergency..."". The broadside continues with instructions on where to report and what personal effects may be taken, prohibited articles, storage and disposal arrangements, and so on. In 1942, the American government conceived of the idea of interning ethnic Japanese, despite their American citizenship, in the fear that these Americans would spy on their own country! The policy still draws fire today, with interned Japanese offered reparations for their incarceration. Framed without glass in a simple black velvet frame. A central slip, crudely repaired, and some tape remnants from a prior repaired tear, overall very good." 2461 A rare relic from one of the darker periods in our nation's history, a 13"" x 22"" printed broadside from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration titled ""INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY..."", ordering their evacuation from a section of Los Angeles by Noon on April 24, 1942, and stating that ""...No Japanese person living in the above area will be permitted to change residence after 12 o'clock noon, P.W.T., Friday, April 24, 1942, without obtaining special permission from the representative of the Commanding General, Southern California Sector... Such permits will only be granted for the purpose of uniting members of a family, or in cases of grave emergency..."". The broadside continues with instructions on where to report and what personal effects may be taken, prohibited articles, storage and disposal arrangements, and so on. In 1942, the American government conceived of the idea of interning ethnic Japanese, despite their American citizenship, in the fear that these Americans would spy on their own country! The policy still draws fire today, with interned Japanese offered reparations for their incarceration. Framed without glass in a simple black velvet frame. A central slip, crudely repaired, and some tape remnants from a prior repaired tear, overall very good.