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Title
Wooden leaf shell pin
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1941/1945
Publication Information
California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Contributing Institution
California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection
Japanese American Archival Collection
Rights Information
2004
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts or photographs must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Description
Tule Lake Relocation Center and Topaz Relocation Center were on or near shell beds. When the surface supply of good shells was eventually exhausted, the internees dug for them in beds from one to four feet below the ground. After gathering, sifting, and sorting, the shells would be washed and bleached in a weak chlorine solution, then assembled and arranged into countless compositions. Shells would sometimes be carried from one camp to another, especially when internees were transferred to another camp.
Type
image
Format
2 3/4 x 2 in.
color slide
1 1/2 x 1 1/2
1.50 x 0.96
Epson Expression 1600
Photoshop 7.0
None
4000
RGB
24 Bit
6000 x 3848
66.1
Tiff
Identifier
jc25r-05
ark:/13030/kt4w1020kn
1507.JPG
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/jaac/id/1491
Subject
Concentration camps--United States
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Found objects (Art)
Jewelry
Relation
From the Japanese American Archival Collection. MSS-94/01. California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives

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