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Description
1990-2065 View of two cars in front of Governor's Hall on the State Fair grounds on Stockton Blvd. Several women are in the back seat of the car in the foreground, a man holds the car door open. Part of the Invasion Currency Project, Operation Toy Horse, which made money for the invasion of the Japan islands. The money was numbered, cut and wrapped by the State Printing Office in the Governor's Hall building. Between the Sept. 1944 and April 1945, the U.S. Government contracted with the State of California, State Printing Office to number, cut and wrap Japanese military currency. This invasion currency consisted of sen and yen notes and was printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Company in San Francisco. Operation was known as Operation Toy Horse. In 1944, State Printing Office set up project to document operations with photographs, to be gathered into book form. Negative, no. 22,646 (8 x 10 in.) Removed from: Edward O. Strong Collection, 1922-1984.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 8 X 10 in.
Identifier
(C)001390061CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-3378
Subject
California. State Printing Department--Photographs World War, 1939-1945--War work--California--Sacramento--Photographs Buildings--California--Sacramento Automobiles--California--Sacramento Operation Toy Horse--Photographs Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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