Title:
Virginia Okubo is shown playing with her schoolmates in the playground of the St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights,
...
Date:
1944-09-19
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Virginia Okubo is shown playing with her schoolmates in the playground of the St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington
Heights, Illinois. Virginia lives with her father and mother, Rokuro and Ayako Okubo, on a farm a few miles from Arlington
Heights and goes back and forth by bus. She is the first Nisei to attend St. Peter Lutheran School and her teachers remark
both at her brightness and at the ease with which she has made a great number of friends in the school. The Okubos were living
in Los Angeles at the time of evacuation, Mr. Okubo having operated a vegetable market there, and they came to Illinois from
Granada in April, 1944.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Palatine, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. I-619
Copyright Note:
Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Copyright Owner Note: All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Virginia Okubo is shown playing with her schoolmates in the playground of the St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights,
...