Lost and found department with evacuees claiming items at Portland Assembly Center in Oregon. The Portland Assembly Center was formerly known as the North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center. Lost and found,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Lost and found departments were provided at each center. Photo shows such a unit at Portland (Oregon) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2798-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.
Clerks Relocation camps Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Lost and found possessions World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans North Portland International Livestock Exposition Center Portland Assembly Center
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