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1986.5.6681.6
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Cooks in the mess hall at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup, 1942
Order an ImageIn the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army into assembly centers while permanent incarceration 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 from Seattle, Tacoma and Alaska.
In order to feed so many, meals were regimented with set times and limited food options. In this photo, a line of cooks stir food in huge pots on stoves 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.
In order to feed so many, meals were regimented with set times and limited food options. In this photo, a line of cooks stir food in huge pots on stoves 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.
ID Number: 1986.5.6681.6
Date: 1942
Physical Description: 1 acetate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 1986.5.6681.6
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
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