Title:
Terumitsu Akita, who was a vegetable farmer near Stockton, California, prior to evacuation of the Japanese Americans from
the West ...
Date:
1944-06-15
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Terumitsu Akita, who was a vegetable farmer near Stockton, California, prior to evacuation of the Japanese Americans
from the West Coast early in 1942, is shown at work on the farm of Ed B. Phillips near Aurora, Illinois. Akita is cutting
asparagus and is one of the group of 60 men contracted for the asparagus growers near Aurora and Naperville to harvest their
asparagus. The contract was arranged for between the Illinois Mushroom Company, who operates an asparagus cannery at Naperville,
and the War Food Administration, the Farm Extension Service, and the War Relocation Authority. Akita and the entire group
of seasonal workers came to Illinois from the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas.<lb/> Naperville, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-611
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Terumitsu Akita, who was a vegetable farmer near Stockton, California, prior to evacuation of the Japanese Americans from
the West ...