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Title
Granada Relocation Center
Contributor
United States. Army. Signal Corps (photographer) (Creator)
Flaherty, John Melvin (collector) (Contributor)
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-1945
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
Panorama of Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado showing in the foreground a typical barracks unit consisting of 12 six-room apartment barrack buildings, a recreation hall, mess hall, laundry and bathhouse.
Granada Relocation Center, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-05-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption taken from album page: "Panorama of Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado, showing in the foreground a typical barracks unit consisting of 12 six-room apartment barrack buildings, a recreation hall, laundry and bathhouse, and mess hall, constructed by Army Engineers. The re Center was made up of 30 such blocks, complemented by hospital buildings, administrative office buildings, living quarters, general warehouse structures and military police quarters." WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY 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
filename: fla_album_134
oclc: 556267557
islandora: 62_144
Language
English
Subject
Barracks
Relocation camps
Temporary buildings
Forced migration
Granada Relocation Center
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Place
Amache
Colorado
Relation
Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records
Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Photograph Album

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