Title:

George Yamamoto, Issei from the Gila River Relocation Center is helping his employer, Herman S. Heston, harvest tomatoes on the ...

Date:

1944-08

Subject:

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

Full title:George Yamamoto, Issei from the Gila River Relocation Center is helping his employer, Herman S. Heston, harvest tomatoes on the Heston farm in Newtown, Bucks County, Pa. Mr. Yamamoto is the leader of the group of the five Issei who were obliged by neighbors' protests to leave another farm at Great Meadows, N.J., shortly after arriving there in April 1944 from Gila River. A few days later the men were employed by Mr. Heston through the WRA relocation office in Philadelphia. The other Issei are Kazumasa Kitagawa, Katsuji Taniguchi, Ted Miyamura, and Torazo Matsumoto. Mr. Yamamoto's son Ayao, 19, also worked on the farm for a month, but returned to Gila River on being notified of his pending induction into the Army. Also at the center are Mrs. Yamamoto and four other children, Kinzo, Tetsuo, Shinobu, and Yuri. Prior to evacuation the family lived in Brentwood, Calif., where Mr. Yamamoto, who had attended an agricultural college in Japan, was a field foreman on a 1500-acre farm. At Gila River he was a farmhand until March 1944, when he went to work on a farm at Lewes, Del. Shortly thereafter Mr. Yamamoto went to work on the farm at Great Meadows, where the four other Issei soon joined him. Mr. Heston, their employer, speaks well of Mr. Yamamoto and his fellow workers. I have found them loyal, hard-working, clean and pleasant to work with, he said. We like them a lot and have a high regard for them.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Newtown, Pennsylvania.

WRA no. I-307

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War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement