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| Title | Busload of internees arriving at Camp Harmony, Puyallup, 1942 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1942 |
| Caption | In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were evacuated by the US Army into assembly centers while permanent internment camps were built. Camp Harmony, hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds in Puyallup, temporarily housed over 7, 000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma and Alaska. Buses transported internees to the facility and eventually to permanent camps in the fall.
This photo shows three women on the road talking to a passenger leaning out of the bus window. Bekins moving vans are visible behind the bus. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: PUYALLUP, Wash., Japanese colony, Camp Harmony.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 12, 1942. |
| Subjects | Buses--Washington (State)--Puyallup; Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Puyallup; Relocation camps--Washington (State)--Puyallup; World War, 1939-1945. |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.6682.5 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS5, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
