Families preparing for evacuation, Berkeley, California, 1942

A Japanese American family tries on boots and hats in preparation for the mass "evacuation" to concentration camps in the interior United States during World War II. The father wears a sombrero as he sits on a bench looking at a boot while a balding shoe salesman kneels on the ground holding his proper right foot in his lap. A little girl sits to the right trying on a small sombrero. A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, looks over her shoulder at top right, observing the family. The mother sits to the left of the father, her face obscured by the hands of the infant in her arms. A pail full of packages sits atop a bedroll on the bench at far left; packages sit on the ground, right.