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Title
Pioneering
community
Photographer
Unknown
Date created
circa
1942-1945
Description
Amache
was a "
pioneering
community.
"
Although
the
War
Relocation
Authority
(WRA)
was in
charge
of the
administration
at
Amache
, the
evacuees
were
employed
as
staff
to
perform
most
of the
work
in the
various
departments
. These
photographs
show
evacuees
working
in a
variety
of
jobs
in
Amache
. A
total
of
3,476
evacuees
were
employed
at
Amache
in
25
different
departments
.
Evacuee
wages
were
nineteen
dollars
a
month
for
professional
workers
such
as
doctors
and
teachers
,
sixteen
dollars
a
month
for
skilled
personnel
, and
twelve
dollars
a
month
for
unskilled
workers
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
Copyright statement
Restrictions
may
apply.
For
more
information
see
http://library.sonoma.edu/regional/conditions.php
Identifier
am1_0054
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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