Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. This complicated looking gadget is a Jap . . .; Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. This complicated looking gadget is a Japanese typewriter, the private property of a resident of Japanese ancestry at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. The machine, loaned to the center newspaper for its Japanese section which is printed for the purpose of informing those residents unable to read English, is here being assembled by Sentinel staff members. The paper
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. This complicated looking gadget is a Jap . . .; Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. This complicated looking gadget is a Japanese typewriter, the private property of a resident of Japanese ancestry at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. The machine, loaned to the center newspaper for its Japanese section which is printed for the purpose of informing those residents unable to read English, is here being assembled by Sentinel staff members. The paper is wound on the round drum, which operates on rollers over the type bed, spotted over the required character, an arm picks the metal slug from the bed, presses it against the paper and returns it to its niche. Due to the short hand character of Japanese printing, the typewriter is nearly equal in speed in conveying thoughts as a standard English typewriter.
Size: 4481px × 4463px
Photo credit: © Alpha Stock / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords:
