Photograph shows one of the Pomona, California Assembly Center stores displaying various sections of goods available for purchase with evacuees buying goods. Center store, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "The center stores, or canteens carried a wide variety of articles which the evacuees could purchase with coupons issued each month. Photo shows one of the Pomona (California) Assembly Center stores with the various sections, as cookies, cakes, pies and fruit, tobaccoes, drugs and sundries." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9SVC-42-3679-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.
Food General stores Relocation camps Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans Pomona Assembly Center
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