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Title: School graduation
Contributor: Unknown (Creator)
Flaherty, John Melvin (collector) (Contributor)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Flaherty Collection - Japanese Internment Records
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photograph shows evacuees attending a junior and senior high school students graduation ceremony at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center.
School graduation,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Among the evacuees moved to Assembly Centers during the spring were many students about ready to graduate. At Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center, junior and senior high school students who were unable to graduate with their classes received diplomas at a special graduating ceremony on the forecourt of the once famous race track in impressive ceremonies which were opened by the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner." SANTA ANITA PHOTO NO. 609A
1942; 1943; 1944; 1945;
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:62_197
filename: fla_album_094
oclc: 556267662
islandora: 62_197
Language: English
Subject: Graduation ceremonies
Relocation camps
Rites & ceremonies
Students
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.)
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Place: Arcadia – California
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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