In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were evacuated by the US Army into assembly centers while permanent internment camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named "Camp Harmony," was hastily constructed at the Washington state fairgrounds in Puyallup and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma and Alaska.

Here, a young man holds out his plate to receive a serving of food from a cook. Sacks of flour are piled high beside the counter in the kitchen.

Handwritten on sleeve: PUYALLUP, Wash., Japanese colony, Camp Harmony.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 12, 1942.