Title:
Mrs. Umeko Shimomura, Mrs. Joshua Ritchie, and Mollie Ritchie in the living room of the Ritchie home. Mrs. Shimomura has ...Date:
1944-10Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--PhotographsNote:
Full title:Mrs. Umeko Shimomura, Mrs. Joshua Ritchie, and Mollie Ritchie in the living room of the Ritchie home. Mrs. Shimomura
has been spending some of her spare time studying English with the help of Mrs. Ritchie, who used to be a school teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Shimomura relocated from Poston to Philadelphia in August, 1944. They soon moved to the Ritchie fruit and poultry
farm in nearby Riverton, N.J., where they now have their own house. Mr. Shimomura works on the farm while Mrs. Shimomura voluntarily
helps Mrs. Ritchie around the house and with canning and preserving. Five of the Shimomura children are in schools nearby,
two older girls work in Philadelphia, and there is a son in the U.S. Army<lb/> Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen<lb/> Riverton,
New Jersey.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-736
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Voices in Confinement: A Digital Archive of Japanese-American Internees