This photograph is of a typical Japanese American detention center created by the U.S. government in February 1942. The order allowed the creation of an exclusion zone that effectively excluded Japanese Americans from living or working in the western half of California, Oregon, Washington, and the southern half of Arizona. This order extended to anyone with one-sixteenth Japanese ancestry. When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the order, the government had no facilities ready to house the roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans living in the exclusion zone.