Brick, Amache Barracks Floor
Description
This object is one of the broken-off halves of a solid red building brick. It has a quadragular shape with an irregular surface on the broken side.
Object Information
Date Created:
1941-1942
Local ID:
2012.47.1
Provenance:
This brick came from the barracks floor of Amache Block F, Barrack 2, Apartment 13, the unit that Bob Fuchigami's family lived in while interred at the Granada Relocation Center (Amache). The Granada Relocation Center west of Granada, Colorado, was constructed in 1942 to house Japanese Americans from the West Coast following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Executive Order 9066 authorized the removal of citizens to one of ten facilities, all of them hastily built utilizing government specifications for building Army barracks. Although floors in the communal facilities like the mess hall and bath house were poured concrete, barracks floors in Amache were made of brick, possibly shipped from the upper Arkansas River town of Pueblo. Pueblo had brick factories, one of which has been in business since 1902. A check of their records might help determine whether they made bricks for Amache. Another brick factory north of Pueblo was recently demolished but news accounts don't name the company originally housed there.
Rights:
In Copyright