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Description
Photograph shows a medical advisor conducting a physical examination of an incarcerated family at a Los Angeles Control Station. Caption on album page: "The United States Public Health Service had trained physicians and registered nurses on hand at all control stations during the processing operations or supplied local physicians to conduct physical examinations of all evacuees. Photo shows one of these medical advisors and a family group at a Los Angeles Control Station." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-1769-PSF. The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
Type
image
Format
Photographs black and white, 8 x 10 in. image/jpeg
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