Photograph shows a dishwashing unit in operation at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center with evacuees hard at work. Washing dishes, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Sanitation in kitchens, mess, and food disposal branches was carefully requested. All food handlers and dishwashers were given special health examination on being assigned to the mess sections. Photo shows a dishwashing unit in operation at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center." SANTA ANITA PHOTO NO. 464 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.
Dishwashing Men Relocation camps Tableware 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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