Title:

Everybody likes to eat and the nisei who have resettled in Chicago are no exception. Seated before this luscious meal ...

Date:

1944-01-06

Subject:

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs

Full title:Everybody likes to eat and the nisei who have resettled in Chicago are no exception. Seated before this luscious meal are five young American Japanese who have resettled in Chicago where they have found new friends, new homes, and new jobs. On the left is Mrs. Thomas Tsujimoto whose husband is a Pfc. at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. Mrs. Tsujimoto works as a beautician in Chicago. She relocated from Tule Lake and formerly lived at Loomis, California. She has been in Chicago almost one year. The lucky man in the center is Sam Fujita, one time San Diego farmer, who resettled in the Midwest via Poston an Granada and now works here as an etcher at the production finishing department of a defense plant. He has a brother, Pfc. Minoru Fujita, at Camp Shelby. Pouring the tea is Miss Midori Makimoto, an employee of the Chicago WRA office and State Department of Social Welfare prior to evacuation. On the right is Mrs. Sam Fujita from San Diego, California. The Fujitas have lived in Chicago five months. Mrs. Fujita's brother, Hiroshi Shibata, is stationed at Camp Savage, Minnesota.<lb/> Chicago, Illinois.

WRA no. G-270

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement