Photograph shows a woman artist at work on a landscape scene at Tanforan, California Assembly Center. Woman artist,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Men, women and children participated in art classes at various centers. Photo shows a woman artist at work on a landscape scene at Tanforan (California) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2249-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.
Art education Arts & crafts Painting Relocation camps Women Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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