"Japanese Arrive at Reception Center -- Ordered from their homes in Los Angeles by the Army" -- caption on photograph

"Japanese Arrive at Reception Center -- Ordered from their homes in Los Angeles by the Army as a security measure, these Japanese, some citizens and others aliens, await assignment to community homes which they will occupy in the alien reception center at Manzanar, California. They arrived Mar. 23, 1942, to help prepare the camp for other thousands till to come." -- caption on photograph.