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Title
Baggage inspection
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
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Description
Photograph shows a group of evacuees after arriving by bus at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center and undergoing baggage inspection.
Baggage inspection, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Upon arrival at centers the baggage of the evacuees was inspected by the Interior Security Police and articles of contraband removed, receipts were issued for articles not needed which were stored in warehouses. Photo shows a group of evacuees after arriving by bus at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center and undergoing baggage inspection." SANTA ANITA ASSEMBLY CENTER PHOTO NO. 371
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_142
filename: fla_album_014
oclc: 556267554
islandora: 62_142
Language
English
Subject
Luggage
Military inspections
Relocation camps
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.)
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Place
Arcadia
California
Relation
Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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