Photograph showing people washing dishes (?) at a detention center for Japanese Americans at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition building in Portland. They appear to be standing by pairs in separated stalls, in front of sinks. Dishes are piled on a surface next to the stalls, where people are standing. After Executive Order 9066, the building served as a temporary detention center for Japanese Americans, From May through September of 1942, awaiting eventual transfer to more permanent incarceration centers. Photographs from this series were published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, May 31, 1942 (negative 10 of 15).

A girl washes dishes in outdoor tubs in a migrant labor camp in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She is the daughter of migrant workers and does several of the household chores while her parents work in the fields. This girl is also featured in OrgLot74_B2F6_007. Photographs from this series were published in the Valley Migrant League's Opportunity News on July 1, 1966.