The San Francisco War Years of Brain

I've stumbled across an interesting collection of San Francisco photos taken during WWII by Dorthea Lange.

To the left, once can safely assume Mack Brain plays pool here frequently. One of the curious things about S.F. is actually how little in changes in form for an American city.

There are many shots of the city between about 1940 and 1953, and extensive documentation of the Japanese American relocation.


You look at these shots and know that many Americans knew perfectly well the depth of the crime and betrayal being committed by a paranoid war-time policy. Below are some Japanese-American children in a mixed school in San Francisco literally pledging allegiance the day before the evacuation.