Title:
Four American Japanese employed by the Illinois Mushroom Company have just brought in loaded baskets of mushrooms which they
had ...
Date:
1944-01-06
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Four American Japanese employed by the Illinois Mushroom Company have just brought in loaded baskets of mushrooms
which they had picked from the mushroom beds which can be seen in the right and left hand sides of the picture. In the center
is Mr. E. Peterson, manager of the Illinois Mushroom Company at Naperville, Illinois. 13 American Japanese are employed here
as mushroom growers and pickers. In the picture from left to right are: Moi[?] Ohara, kneeling, an issei from Gardenia, California,
who has lived in the United States 25 years. In California he was a farmer and he came to Naperville in November 1943 from
Rohwer, Arkansas; Paul Sugishita, formerly prune grower from Coyote, California, who came to the Midwest from Heart Mountain
in November 1943; Peterson; Tom Kodama, Gardenia, California farmer who resettled in the Midwest from Rohwer, Arkansas; and
Raymond Hamasaki, kneeling, Los Altos, California farmer who came here from Heart Mountain.<lb/> Naperville, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-267
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Four American Japanese employed by the Illinois Mushroom Company have just brought in loaded baskets of mushrooms which they
had ...