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Title: Garbage sanitation
Creator: United States. Army. Signal Corps: photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [1942]
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Material in public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Photograph shows a group of incarcerees washing garbage cans at Puyallup, Washington Assembly Center. 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.
The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
Type: image
Format: Photographs
black and white, 8 x 10 in.
image/jpeg
Identifier: sjs_fla_0325
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/5659
Subject: World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Facilities, services, and camp administration
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Work and jobs
Place: Puyallup, Washington
Temporary Assembly Centers--Puyallup (Camp Harmony)
Source: San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt987024h5/
John M. Flaherty Collection of Japanese Internment Records

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