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Original WRA caption: Another view of the barracks at the Tanforan Assembly Center, after approximately six weeks of occupancy. The building on the right is one of the eighteen such mess halls which, together, accommodate approximately 8,000 persons for three meals each day. June 16, 1942. San Bruno, California. Photographer Dorothea Lange.

Courtesy of WRA no. C-620, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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