Title	Camp Amache view - 1
Photographer	Unknown
Date created	circa 1942-1945
Description	View of Amache in December 1942. When first approaching Amache, visitors would have noted its similarity to an Army camp because of the rows of barracks, barbed wires and military checkpoint at the entry gate. Amache also resembled a prison because of the armed sentry towers with searchlights, barbed wires, and jeep patrol roads around its perimeter. After entry, the differences between a military installation and a concentration camp for civilians became apparent. Amache consisted of a mile square cluster of buildings and barracks sectioned off into 30 blocks. Each block had 13 barracks, a group mess hall for eating, and a communal H shaped building used for toilets, showers, laundry, and an office for the block manager. One barrack in each block was set aside for use as a church, club meeting hall, or recreation hall. The blocks were separated by a dirt road for fire break and safety reasons. Each block housed approximately 260 evacuees. Block 811 was set aside for use as a school.
Type of object	Image
Physical description	1 photograph : b & w ; 20.3 x 27.9 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
Copyright statement	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/
Identifier	am3_0002
Original source	Fuchigami, Robert Y.
Source collection	North Bay Ethnic Archive
Digital collection	Camp Amache Digital Collection
Related resoures	http://iii.sonoma.edu/record=b1445694
Related links	http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/wwcod/granada.htm ; http://www.amache.org/
Object form	Photograph
Digital reproduction	Original photograph scanned as a tiff at 400 dpi and 6000 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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