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Sharp Park Enemy Alien Detention Center views, Pacifica, Calif. [graphic]
BANC PIC 1998.012--PIC
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Title:
Sharp Park Enemy Alien Detention Center views, Pacifica, CalifAbstract:
Photographs of the Sharp Park facility show interiors and exteriors of buildings including mess halls, dormitories, recreation
rooms, the library, etc. Some photographs show detainees and guards.
Date:
ca. 1942 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJapanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Photographs
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States -- Photographs
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners of war -- Photographs
Concentration camps -- California -- Photographs
Sharp Park (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer unknown.
Sharp Park was used, starting March 30, 1942, as an internment camp for aliens (German, Italian, and Japanese) brought to
the camp by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was apparently used in 1943 by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service to detain Peruvian Japanese war prisoners.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
graphic
photoprint
39 photographic prints : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. or smaller.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1998.012--PIC