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Barracks are from the Japanese Relocation Center and are now furnishing housing for farm labor on Bryant Williams farm in Klamath County, Oregon.

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Japanese American field worker, Ontario, Oregon. In May 1942, Malheur County became one of the first areas to recruit Japanese- American evacuees for farm work. Some of the evacuees remained in Eastern Oregon after the order excluding them from theā€¦

About 450 Japanese from relocation centers were used in Malheur County. They worked mostly for Japanese farmers, though these were working in the Dale Garrison beet field.