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Title: Imhoff tank under construction
Contributor: Unknown (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 an Imhoff tank used for the reception and processing of sewage under construction near the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.
Imhoff tank under construction,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Deep below the sod of Heart Mountain Relocation Center, once pounded by buffalo herds, rise the forms of reinforced concrete to house Imhoff or sanitary tank." UNITED STATES ARMY ENGINEERS PHOTO
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_191
filename: fla_album_130
oclc: 556270192
islandora: 62_191
Language: English
Subject: Relocation camps
Sanitation
Septic tanks
Sewerage
Waste disposal facilities
Forced migration
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Place: Cody
Wyoming
Powell
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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