Title:
Giving the final touches to an ashtray, Mr. Kay Kato, age 38, Issei from the Rohwer Relocation Center, is engrossed ...Date:
1944-09Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--PhotographsNote:
Full title:Giving the final touches to an ashtray, Mr. Kay Kato, age 38, Issei from the Rohwer Relocation Center, is engrossed
in his work as Joe Shinyeda, twenty-three-year-old Nisei, looks over his work. Mr. Kato is employed with the Oriental Trading
Company as a painter of figurines and is working part-time with the Murray Photographic Studio, where he is learning the retouching
business. Mr. Kato's home town is San Francisco, California. Mr. Joe Shinyeda, who is employed by the Oriental Trading Company
as a molder of plaster-of-Paris figurines, is from Seattle, Washington. Joe was evacuated to the Minidoka Center from which
he relocated in February 1944 to Omaha.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Omaha, Nebraska.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. I-582
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Voices in Confinement: A Digital Archive of Japanese-American Internees