Photograph shows a group of evacuees washing garbage cans at Puyallup, Washington Assembly Center. Garbage sanitation,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Other details were assigned to garbage sanitation. Photo shows a team giving garbage cans a daily washing at Puyallup (Washington) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2517-PSF 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.
Refuse Relocation camps Sanitation Sanitation workers Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Puyallup Assembly Center (Puyallup, Wash.) World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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