Photograph shows a typical evacuee apartment at Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado with female evacuees reading, sewing and playing. Evacuee apartment, Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives. Caption on album page: "Photo shows a typical evacuee apartment at Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. The furniture, the book niches, flower pots and print mats are all made by the evacuees from scrap lumber or pieces of wall board or furnished by them." WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY PHOTO 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.
Apartments Domestic life Dwellings Family Relocation camps Forced migration Granada Relocation Center Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
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