Photograph shows a section of one of two 12-chair barber shops at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center. Barbershop, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Barber shops were male evacuees could obtain haircuts for 20 cents and shaves for 10 cents were operated in centers (payable only out of monthly script allowances, no cash and shaves for 10 cents, were operated in centers. Photo shows a section of one of two 12-chair barber shops at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center." SANTA ANITA PHOTO SA1 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.
Barbers Barbershops Men Relocation camps Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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