Title	Camp Amache closure - 1
Photographer	Unknown
Date created	circa 1942-1945
Description	Amache was scheduled for closure on October 15, 1945. All basic operations and facilities were gradually shut down and would end on that date. All evacuees were urged to leave Amache as quickly as possible. Two girls ready for the long train ride back to their homes in California are shown leaving by truck for the Granada railroad station. When they left Amache, each evacuee was issued a ticket to their destination and twenty five dollars to restart their life on the outside. Project Director Lindley made the following statements in his final report dated November 15, 1945: 'A paragraph is necessary to express my feeling toward the evacuees. I have a lasting and deep regard for them. It is hard for one to visualize any other group of people who would be so well behaved under similar conditions. In close contact with them over three years I can only admire their cheerful acceptance of unfair treatment; their overcoming of fear, resentment and frustration; their willingness to give their time and effort to make various phases of the WRA program work... They are people, even as you and I. Capable of assimilation into our western civilization, they bring to it a love of beauty, a time factor which we westerners are in danger of ignoring, a recognition of the need of courtesy and politeness in our everyday dealings. It is my hope that through their dispersal throughout the country, both they and their neighbors will benefit by mutual association and that something good will come out of this 'piece of wartime folly.'
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 Yamamoto, Shuichi Lindley, James G.
Copyright statement	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/
Identifier	am3_0045
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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