Photograph shows the Information Section at Portland, Oregon Assembly Center with a sign that reads "Interpreters and General Information" in English and its equivalent in Japanese characters. The Information Section is staffed by evacuees helping other evacuees. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center. Information Section,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "An important phase of the administrative facilities at each assembly center was the information unit, staffed by evacuees under Caucasian direction, where information of all types was available, as well as interpreters if needed. Photo shows the information section at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2819-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.
Clerks Communication Office workers 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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