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Description
Bedding and household utensils are being delivered to an apartment of an incarceree family. Clerks record the delivery. Caption on album page: "New arrivals at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center are shown delivering issues of bedding and household utensils to an apartment of an evacuee family, while Japanese clerks record the delivery. Similar operations were conducted at all centers." Signal Corps Photo 9CA-42-1930-PSF. 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, 8 x 10 in. image/jpeg
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Preparation World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Work and jobs
Place
Santa Anita, California Temporary Assembly Centers--Santa Anita
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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