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Title: Ironing room
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 an ironing room at Portland, Oregon Assembly Center with female evacuees ironing their clothes. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center.
Ironing room,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Facilities for ironing clothes, including sockets for electric irons were provided at the centers. Photo shows an ironing room scene at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2724-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_201
filename: fla_album_055
oclc: 556267675
islandora: 62_201
Language: English
Subject: Laundries (Rooms & spaces)
Laundry
Relocation camps
Women
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Pressing of garments
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center
Portland Assembly Center
Place: Portland
Oregon
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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