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Title: Girl in Carmen Miranda costume
Contributor: United States. Army. Signal Corps (photographer) (Creator)
Flaherty, John Melvin (collector) (Contributor)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Flaherty Collection - Japanese Internment Records
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photograph shows a Japanese girl participating in an amateur show, dressed as Carmen Miranda. Photograph was taken at Turlock, California Assembly Center.
Girl in Carmen Miranda costume, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Vaudeville and native Japanese theatricals were carried out at various centers. Photo shows a Japanese girl impersonating Carmen Miranda at Turlock (California) Assembly Center amateur show." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9SVC-42-2960-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.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:62_155
filename: fla_album_087
oclc: 556269769
islandora: 62_155
Language: English
Subject: Children playing adults
Costumes
Relocation camps
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Turlock Assembly Center
Place: Turlock
California
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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