Photograph shows a family in a mess hall at Tanforan, California Assembly Center. Family mess hall, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: Every effort was made to provide mess facilities for family groups near their dwellings. Photo shows a happy family group at mess at Tanforan (California) Assembly Center. SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2264-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.
Eating & drinking Family Mess halls Relocation camps Children and adults Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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