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Title: Internal police
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 Japanese police unit at Portland, Oregon Assembly Center. Police unit members are all wearing, arm bands with the initials "PD" to denote their status. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center.
Internal police,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Under Caucasian supervision, internal police units of evacuees were organized in the assembly centers. Photo shows Japanese police unit at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center, with their arm bands." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2806-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_200
filename: fla_album_019
oclc: 556270278
islandora: 62_200
Language: English
Subject: Law enforcement officers
Police
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
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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