Photograph shows evacuees drawing coupon books at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center. Cashier's office, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "In additional to the nominal wages paid, if employed within the centers, evacuees were entitled without cost to coupon or script books on the basis of $1.00 per month for children, $2.50 for a single person, $4.00 for a married couple with a maximum of $7.00 to a family. This script was redeemable at center stores or canteens for personal items such as tooth brushes, refreshments, tobacco and other items. No cash transactions were permitted at stores or canteens. Photo shows evacuees drawing coupon books at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-1944-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.
Canteens (Wartime, emergency, etc.) Men Relocation camps Women 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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