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Title: [Wood working shop]
Creator: Parker, Thomas W., 1907-1976: photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-09-21
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department.�http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: A War Relocation Authority photograph with the description "Evacuee workers operate a wood shaper in the wood working shop where furniture for schools and recreational buildings at this Relocation Center are being made."
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
Identifier: sjs_fla_0867
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/8883
Language: English
Subject: Industry and employment--Carpentry
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs
Place: Cody, Wyoming
Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source: San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt987024h5/
John M. Flaherty Collection of Japanese Internment Records

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