Photograph shows evacuees being interviewed by a female employee of the Farm Security Administration in a control station at Visalia, California. Farm Security Administration,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Evacuees, particularly in agricultural districts, were given assistance and advice by the Farm Security Administration as to the disposition of agricultural properties in order to save the crops for the war effort and to protect the owners' interests. Arrangements were made for leasing or sale of their lands, though no sale was forced. Photo shows group being interviewed by this department in Control Station at Visalia, California, July 27, 1942." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-3371-PSF 1942-07-27; 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.
Clerks Farmers Office workers Relocation camps Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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