Photograph shows a meat cutting room at Turlock, California Assembly Center. One of the evacuees is using a hacksaw while the other one is using a butcher knife to cut the beef. Cutting room, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album: "Experienced Japanese butchers were employed in the meat cutting departments at the centers, under supervision of Caucasian cooks. Photo shows a meat cutting room at Turlock (California) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9SVC-42-2942-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.
Butchers Meat cutting Men Relocation camps Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans Turlock Assembly Center
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