Title	Granada Project farm -3
Photographer	Unknown
Date created	Circa 1942-1945
Description	An essential and integral part of the Granada Relocation Project was the farm operation. Sometimes called the Amache Farm, the Granada Project farm area included over 10,500 acres of land. While some acreage was unsuitable for farming and used only as grazing land for animals, other acreage was Arkansas River bottom land rich in nutrients for the production of a variety of vegetables. Some of the crops raised by the evacuees were familiar to people living in the area but other crops were raised in Colorado for the first time. A view of the Granada Project farm area with irrigated fields. The total Granada Project included over 10,500 acres of land used to raise vegetables, cattle, chickens, pigs and other food for the camp residents.
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 Onions
Copyright statement	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/
Identifier	am1_0025
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/ http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/
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	US

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