Photograph shows a medical advisor conducting a physical examination of an evacuee family at a Los Angeles Control Station. Family checkup, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "The United States Public Health Service had trained physicians and registered nurses on hand at all control stations during the processing operations or supplied local physicians to conduct physical examinations of all evacuees. Photo shows one of these medical advisors and a family group at a Los Angeles Control Station." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-1769-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.
Children Family Health care Physicians Relocation camps Forced migration Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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