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Barracks at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup, 1942

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1942

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In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army into temporary "assembly centers" while permanent incarceration camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named “Camp Harmony," was hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds, and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma, and Alaska.

This photo shows the barracks in which the incarcerees lived, and the muddy conditions in the camp.

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MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 1986.5.6680.1 https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/306/rec/6

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