Photograph shows an elementary classroom at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center. The children are all using the "Elson Readers, Book 2" as their textbook. Elementary school class, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "For children beyond the kindergarten ages there were elementary classes. Photo shows a scene in the elementary class room at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center." SANTA ANITA PHOTO NO. 732B 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.
Classrooms Relocation camps School children Schools Teachers Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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