Photograph

Photograph

Tom Parker

12/13/42

Black and white photograph depicting three unidentified Japanese American women seated on their beds in the barracks at the Granada Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado on a Sunday afternoon, dated December 13, 1942. One woman knits while the two others share a magazine. The furniture shown were made by the women from scrap lumber and wall board.Typed on verso: "WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, Colo., NO: E-433, DATE:12/13/42, PHOTO LOCATION: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. DATA: Sunday afternoon and the three girls who occupy this barracks room relax. The furniture, the book niches, flower pot and print mats are all made by the girls from scrap lumber and scrap pieces of wall board. Photographer: TOM PARKER"

Plains to Peaks Collective

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Amache, Colorado

Women

Tables

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Granada Relocation Center (Colo.)

Amache Internment Camp