card
notes: label: Description
content: Crowding and limited spaces in which to prepare and eat food resulted in scheduled dining times. Mess hall cards were used to regulate and structure the internees' daily meals. Although eating was organized on a strict schedule this did not prevent long lines and waiting at the mess hall. Lines formed outside of mess halls where people were affected by the heat of summer, the cold of winter, bugs, and the dust of camps that were located in deserts.
label: Description
content: Communal dining also broke down the strong family structure – as children and teens sought out friends to dine with, as opposed to parents and grandparents. In some cases, families were unable to eat together due to work schedules and uncoordinated meal times, which led to further breakdown as a family unit.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ko Takemoto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3083.03.04
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3083.03.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 8.89 cm