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Title	Construction of barracks and facilities
Photographer	Unknown
Date created	circa 1942-1945
Description	Early in construction of camp, the water and sewer system were not in operation. "The contractor failed to have buildings ready by scheduled date but the Western Defense Command refused to change the schedule for departure of evacuees (from the assembly centers). As a result evacuees arrived (in Amache) before adequate facilities were prepared. Trains arrived, usually at night; lighting facilities were extremely sketchy, and families stumbled around in the dark, individuals often falling into excavations when being led to their quarters. Candles, with their ever-present fire hazard in this city of cardboard homes, were their only light. Hot and cold water was provided in only a few blocks; mess hall installation lagged. The evacuees had to walk several blocks to find a bath house with water provided. One mess hall served as many as four blocks, 1000 to 1200 people, serving in three or four shifts. Water for drinking and washing dishes had to be hauled in truck tanks from Granada, as the center water was impure and inadequate. The toilets in the wash rooms were used before the water connections were made and a clean-up hose squad was necessary to clean up the attendant litter. Wooden privies were finally provided, neither sightly nor sanitary." Source: Final report on the Granada Relocation Project, James G. Lindley, Director.
Type of object	Image
Physical description	1 slide : color ; 5.08 x 5.08 cm
Institution	Sonoma State University Library Rohnert Park, California
Subject (Place)	Amache (Colo.)
Subject (Name)	Amache Relocation Camp Granada Relocation Center
Subject (Topic)	Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 Barracks--Design and construction Barracks--Toilet facilities Barracks--Plumbing Barracks--Lighting Streets--Lighting Mess halls--Plumbing
Copyright statement	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/regional/conditions.php
Identifier	am1_0068
Original source	Fuchigami, Robert Y.
Source collection	North Bay Ethnic Archive
Digital collection	Camp Amache Digital Collection
Related resoures	http://iii.sonoma.edu/record=b1523828~S12 ; http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf067n97mb
Related links	http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/wwcod/granada.htm ; http://www.amache.org/
Object form	Photograph
Digital reproduction	Original slide scanned as a jpeg at 2000 dpi and 2000 ppi on the long side--Display jpeg set at 400 dpi and 1024 ppi on the long side
Date digitized	2011
Language	eng
Country of creation	U.S.

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