Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 371

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
ORDERING JAPANESE-AMERICANS TO REGISTER FOR INTERNMENT (WORLD WAR TWO.) DeWitt, J.L. Notice . . . Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41. Broadside, 22 x 14 inches; no notable wear. San Francisco, CA: Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, 5 May 1942

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Orders that "all persons of Japanese ancestry" are to be excluded from the neighborhood of San Francisco near the Presidio. Orders that "a responsible member of each family" must report for registration over the next two days, and that all Japanese must evacuate the neighborhood within six days.