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Title
Postal service
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
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Description
Photograph shows female evacuees working at a post office in Portland Assembly Center in Oregon. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center.
Postal service,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Complete postal service under jurisdiction of the nearest U.S. Post Office was provided at the centers and included regular mail delivery, general delivery, parcel post, money order, and other units. Photo shows a post office scene at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2800-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_230
filename: fla_album_063
oclc: 556267737
islandora: 62_230
Language
English
Subject
Clerks
Post offices
Postal service employees
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
Place
Portland
Oregon

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