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.
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
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