Title:
Tommy Tanahara, who lived at Anaheim, California, in Orange Country until he and his family were evacuated to Poston Relocation
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Date:
1944-06-15
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Tommy Tanahara, who lived at Anaheim, California, in Orange Country until he and his family were evacuated to Poston
Relocation Center in Arizona early in 1942, is shown emptying the giant double hand-full of asparagus into a crate on the
farm of Ed B. Phillips near Aurora, Illinois. Tommy is one of the group of 14 year-round employees of the Illinois Mushroom
Company, Naperville, Illinois. The company also employs 60 seasonal workers from the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas.
This group of seasonal workers are engaged almost entirely in cutting asparagus for the company's cannery. They work on a
number of farms near Naperville and Aurora, Illinois.<lb/> Naperville, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-612
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Tommy Tanahara, who lived at Anaheim, California, in Orange Country until he and his family were evacuated to Poston Relocation
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