Object Details
- Description
- These identification cards were issued to residents of the internment camps. In order to exercise control and maintain surveillance over the population, internees were given family numbers and their physical characteristics were recorded.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1942
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ko Takemoto
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.588 cm x 10.16 cm; 2 3/16 in x 4 in
- Object Name
- identification card
