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Title: Watchtower
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 guard on duty in watchtower at Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California.
Watchtower,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "The military were responsible for the external security of the Assembly Centers in the interest of all factors. In addition to details of Military Police assigned to the external boundaries of the Centers, guard towers were erected at strategic points and a watch kept for fires or other dangers. Photo shows guard on duty in watchtower at Tanforan (California) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2255-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_260
filename: fla_album_018
oclc: 556267598
islandora: 62_260
Language: English
Subject: Guards
Relocation camps
Soldiers
Watch towers
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Place: San Bruno
California
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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