Photograph shows evacuees signing for athletic equipment at Portland Assembly Center in Oregon. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center. Sports equipment rental , Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Equipment was available to evacuees at the centers for all types of sports and athletics. Photo shows evacuees signing for baseball equipment, horseshoes and volley balls at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2797-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.
Lease & rental services Relocation camps Sporting goods 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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