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Title: Watermelon eating contest
Contributor: Unknown (Creator)
Flaherty, John Melvin (collector) (Contributor)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Flaherty Collection - Japanese Internment Records
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Photograph shows a group of evacuees in a watermelon eating contest at Santa Anita Assembly Center in California.
Watermelon eating contest, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Special activities sections were established at centers under the Recreation Division and conducted diversified recreational stunts. Photo shows a group of evacuees in a watermelon eating contest at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center." SANTA ANITA PHOTO NO. 731A
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.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:62_261
filename: fla_album_064
oclc: 556267601
islandora: 62_261
Language: English
Subject: Contests
Relocation camps
Spectators
Watermelons
Competitive eating
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.)
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Place: Arcadia
California
Relation: Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records

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