The Japanese American Historical Society
is pleased to announce the Modern Exchange Art Exposition
opening on Thursday April 12, 2001 in the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.
This event is in the lower east wing of the ground floor of the museum and is wheel chair accessible. Tickets are free to seniors and transportation is being arranged in a cooperative arrangement with the On Lock Senior Services Cooperative. Please call JAHS for more information and assistance regarding arranging rides to the exhibit.

At the core of the exhibit are the award-winning collection of photographs taken at the Tanforan internment camp outside Colma during the opening months of the Japanese-American involvement in 1942.
The hysteria following the Pearl Harbor Attack proceeded to the Executive Order 9066 which mandated the forcible removal of Japanese residents from their homes in the cities where they were relocated in camps of isolation throughout the western United States.

The photographs for this exhibition were loaned to the JAHS by George G. Murakami from Berkeley , California who spent the early years of his life at the camp processing center in the Tanforan racetrack, later being transferred to the facility in Topaz, Utah. The photos were taken by his father Kogiku Murikami, who arrived at the camp in August, 1942.

The pictures will be on display from 10 A.M. until 5 P.M. Monday through Friday and from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturday and Sunday, until June 6, 2001.

You are encouraged to share this experience with a friend.