Train boarding, 1942-1945

Photograph shows evacuees boarding a train at Santa Anita, California on route to a war relocation center.Caption on album page: "Evacuees boarding a special train at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center enroute to a War Relocation Center. Great care was exercised for the comfort of the evacuees traveling from Assembly Centers to War Relocation Centers. Each train carried a Caucasian physician and two nurses. Pullman cars, as needed, were furnished with each train to provide special accomodation for the aged, the infirm and mothers with infants." SANTA ANITA PHOTO NO. 767