Photograph shows evacuees signing up for clothing issue at Fresno, California Assembly Center. Clothing allowances, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Clothing allowances for necessary apparel for evacuees were authorized, ranging from $2.25 per month for infants up to one year, to $3.82 for adult males and $4.61 for adult females, with a maximum of $16.03 for a family of five. Photos shows evacuees signing up for clothing issue at Fresno (California) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9SVC-42-3405-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.
Clothing & dress Clothing relief Relocation camps Forced migration Fresno Assembly Center (Fresno, Calif.) Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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