Needlework display

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/45cb23b5045188b69e3aad268f3ee9f8

Title

Needlework display

Description

Photograph shows a needlework display at Santa Anita, California Assembly Center being admired by other evacuees.
Needlework display,Flaherty Collection: Japanese Internment Records, MSS-2006-02, San Jose State University, Special Collections & Archives.
Caption on album page: "Feminine evacuees interested themselves in many forms of needlework and knitting. Photo shows a needlework display at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center being admired by other evacuees." SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO 9CA-42-2131-PSF
1942; 1943; 1944; 1945;
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.

Subject

Arts & crafts
Embroidery
Knitting
Relocation camps
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.)
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans

Source

California Digital Library

Language

English

Relation

https://thumbnails.calisphere.org/clip/150x150/f836fb854ea8837294f2229e080c95a3

Type

image

References

https://digitalcollections.sjsu.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A62_217

Subject

Arts & crafts
Embroidery
Knitting
Relocation camps
Forced migration
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.)
World War II, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans

Citation

“Needlework display,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed November 9, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/26865.

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