Photograph shows a dance at Fresno, California Assembly Center. Dance social, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Dancing was an almost nightly diversion for the younger evacuees at the centers. Photo shows a dance scene at Fresno (California) Assembly Center." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9SVC-42-3559-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.
Dance parties Dancers Men Relocation camps Women Forced migration Fresno Assembly Center (Fresno, Calif.) Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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