Photograph shows young evacuees in the kindergarten room at Portland, Oregon Assembly Center. Kindergartners are cutting paper dolls under supervision of Japanese teachers. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center. Kindergarten class,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Educational programs were developed by the service division and classes were organized for all age groups from nursery schools to adult education. Photo shows a scene in the kindergarten room at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center, with tiny evacuees cutting paper dolls under supervision of Japanese teachers." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2708-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.
Kindergartens Relocation camps School children Teachers 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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