Photograph shows registrants being interviewed by the Public Assistance department of the Control Station at Visalia, California. Public assistance interviews, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Those who registered were given adequate time to put their affairs in shape. They then returned to the control station, where they were again interviewed to ascertain if they needed assistance to evacuate without loss. Photo shows registrants being interviewed by the last group to leave for Assembly Centers." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-3375-PSF 1942-07-22; 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.
Assistance Interviews Relocation camps Men Women Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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