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Title: Santa Anita, California Assembly Center
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: 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: Photograph shows a portion of the completed Santa Anita, California Assembly Center, situated within the race track at Arcadia, California.
Santa Anita, California Assembly Center, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Photo shows a portion of the completed Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center, situated within the world famous race track at Arcadia, California. This was the largest of all the temporary centers and quartered close to 19,0000 persons at its peak period." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-1877-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_240
filename: fla_album_135
oclc: 556267545
islandora: 62_240
Language: English
Subject: Relocation camps
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.)
Place: Arcadia – California
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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