Photograph shows a busy shoe repair shop at Stockton Assembly Center, California. Shoe repair shop, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Experienced shoemakers were among the evacuees to operate repair shops for employees only. Photo shows a busy scene in the shoe shop at Stockton (California) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9SVC-42-3471-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.
Relocation camps Shoemakers Shoes Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans Stockton Assembly Center
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