Photograph shows a scene in the tub room at Portland, Oregon Assembly Center with evacuees doing their laundry. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center. Laundry facility,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Laundering facilities were provided in all centers, located in the various sections for easy access to families. Photo shows a scene in the tub room at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2713-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.
Laundries (Rooms & spaces) Laundry 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
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