Evacuees playing baseball at Portland Assembly Center in Oregon. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center. Baseball game, Japanese Americans playing baseball, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Baseball was a favorite sport at all of the centers and many teams were organized. Players were furnished equipment, although many of them had their own as well as uniforms. Photo shows action in a game at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2693-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.
Baseball Baseball players Relocation camps Sports Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center Portland Assembly Center
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