Title:
As a finisher in an exclusive New York custom dress shop, Toshiko Torii is now exercising the skill which she ...
Date:
1944-04-25
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:As a finisher in an exclusive New York custom dress shop, Toshiko Torii is now exercising the skill which she developed
as a private dressmaker prior to evacuation from Hanford, Cal., in May 1942, to the Fresno Assembly Center. The following
November she moved from the assembly center to the Jerome Relocation Center, where she taught sewing and drafting in adult
education classes. Prior to evacuation she had studied fashion design at the Milady Sewing School in Fresno and the Academy
of Fashion Design in San Francisco. Previously, in 1934, she had been graduated from the Clovis, Cal., Union High School.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Yorinari Torii, are still living at Jerome. Her brother Yorio is in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<lb/> New
York, New York.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-477
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As a finisher in an exclusive New York custom dress shop, Toshiko Torii is now exercising the skill which she ...