Title:
Chicago WRA supervisor, Elmer L. Shirrell, welcomes five resettlers who have come to the Midwest. From left to right as ...
Date:
1944-01-06
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Chicago WRA supervisor, Elmer L. Shirrell, welcomes five resettlers who have come to the Midwest. From left to
right as Mr. Shirrell tells the new arrivals about the city of Chicago are: Mits Tanigawa from Heart Mountain, 21 years old
and once a fruitstand clerk in Los Angeles, California; Raymond Shimizu, Heart Mountain, and formerly chicken sexer from Los
Angeles, California; H. Kadoyama, greenhouse worker from Kent, Washington, and an issei who has been in the United States
37 years. He is from Tule Lake; Yoe Nishi, 27-year-old sharecropper from Nyssa, Oregon, Yoe is from Portland, Oregon, and
was a volunteer evacuee who left Portland before evacuation to settle in the eastern part of the state; Frank Okazaki from
Heart Mountain and one time lathe machinist from Los Angeles.<lb/> Chicago, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-263
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Chicago WRA supervisor, Elmer L. Shirrell, welcomes five resettlers who have come to the Midwest. From left to right as ...