A War Relocation Authority photograph with the description "Typical scene in the Community Enterprise Stores at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Chief stocked items are tobacco, drug sundries, a limited line of canned and packaged groceries and general notations. Stores are operated on a cooperative basis. The limited profit is returned to the evacuee residents." The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
Type
image
Format
Photographs black and white; 5 x 7 inches image/jpeg
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions
Place
Cody, Wyoming Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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