Title:

The Enseki family, May and Richard, Jr., and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Enseki, enjoy a game of ...

Date:

1944-01-06

Subject:

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

Full title:The Enseki family, May and Richard, Jr., and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Enseki, enjoy a game of bridge in the living room of their new home in New York City. They formerly lived in Pasadena, California, and Hawaii. Mr. Enseki operated his own auto repair shop in Pasadena for 12 years, and had previously worked in Hawaii as an auto repairman. At the time of evacuation of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, the family were sent to the Gila River Relocation Center. In September, 1943, they left the Center and Mr. Enseki secured work as an auto mechanic for a Brooklyn motor sales company. Mae and Richard both attend George Washington High School where Mae is a senior and Richard a sophomore. Mae is musically talented and will study voice at the Julliard School of Music in New York as soon as she finishes high school. Richard plans a medical career. The family lives a short distance from upper Broadway and a few steps from the College of the City of New York.<lb/> New York, New York.

WRA no. G-279

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement