San Francisco, Calif., April 1942. Children at the Weill public school for the so-called international settlement and including many Japanese-Americans, saluting the flag. They include evacuees of Japanese descent who will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration

Originally a Spanish (later Mexican) mission and pueblo, it was conquered by the United States in 1846 and by an invading army of prospectors following the 1848 discovery of gold in its hinterland. The Gold Rush made San Francisco a cosmopolitan metropolis with a frontier edge. In early 1900s the city tried to remake itself into a grand and modern Paris of the West.