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Sharp Park Enemy Alien Detention Center views, Pacifica, Calif. [graphic]
BANC PIC 1998.012--PIC
Collection Overview

Title:

Sharp Park Enemy Alien Detention Center views, Pacifica, Calif

Abstract:

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-ca
Japanese 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

Note:

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:

graphic

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
39 photographic prints : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. or smaller.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1998.012--PIC

Origin:

California