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Title
Family mess hall
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 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.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier
islandora:62_214
filename: fla_album_038
oclc: 556267703
islandora: 62_214
Language
English
Subject
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
Place
San Bruno
California
Relation
Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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