Title:
A group of eager students gather around their instructor, Tetsu Sugi, in a children's sewing class at Christopher House in ...Date:
1943-05-18Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--PhotographsNote:
Full title:A group of eager students gather around their instructor, Tetsu Sugi, in a children's sewing class at Christopher
House in Chicago, Illinois. The instructress, Miss Sugi, voluntarily left her position as a substitute teacher in the Los
Angeles junior and high schools, prior to the mass evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast. After visiting
friends in Little Rock Arkansas, she went to Chicago, and immediately found permanent employment at Christopher House. She
has a full schedule of teaching gym, sewing, folk dancing and Americanism to children of grade school age, young people and
adults, in day and evening classes.<lb/> Photographer: Parker, Tom<lb/> Chicago, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. E-895
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Voices in Confinement: A Digital Archive of Japanese-American Internees