Photograph shows a receiving laundry and cleaning facility at Portland Assembly Center in Oregon with evacuees conducting business. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center. Laundry and cleaning facility,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Laundry and cleaning facilities were available at centers, manned by evacuees. Photo shows the receiving unit at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2811-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.
Laundry Laundries (Rooms & spaces) Relocation camps 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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