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Title: Setting tables
Contributor: United States. Army. Signal Corps (photographer) (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 a portion of a family mess hall at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center with young female evacuees setting the tables.
Setting tables, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Mess halls for the evacuees varied in size at various centers, with every effort made to make them easily accessible to the various areas of each center, where families were housed. In some cases, general mess halls were operated for single men and women. Photo shows a portion of a family mess at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center, with young Japanese girls setting the tables." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-1966-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.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:62_243
filename: fla_album_037
oclc: 556259911
islandora: 62_243
Language: English
Subject: Food
Mess halls
Relocation camps
Women
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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