# Photograph of Members of the Mochida Family Awaiting Evacuation

- By: Dorothea Lange
- Date: 8 May 1942
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Members_of_the_Mochida_Family_Awaiting_Evacuation_-_NARA_-_537505_-_Restoration.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Photograph_of_Members_of_the_Mochida_Family_Awaiting_Evacuation_-_NARA_-_537505_-_Restoration.jpg/1920px-Photograph_of_Members_of_the_Mochida_Family_Awaiting_Evacuation_-_NARA_-_537505_-_Restoration.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Scope and content: Original caption: Hayward, California. Members of the Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus. Identification tags are used to aid in keeping the family unit intact during all phases of evacuation. Mochida operated a nursery and five greenhouses on a two-acre site in Eden Township. He raised snapdragons and sweet peas. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.