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Description
Photograph shows one of the Pomona, California Assembly Center stores displaying various sections of goods available for purchase with evacuees buying goods. 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 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
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Facilities, services, and camp administration World War II World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Food
Place
Pomona, California Temporary Assembly Centers--Pomona
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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