Photograph shows evacuee workers at the Santa Anita, California Assembly Center preparing onion, beets, turnips and other vegetables for cooking. Food preparation,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Assorted vegetables were supplied for standard and special diets for the evacuees, and prepared for table by the culinary staffs. Photo shows evacuee workers at the Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center preparing onions, beets, turnips and other vegetables for cooking." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2113-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.
Cookery Food Relocation camps Vegetables Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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