Title:
Although mushroom growing was an unknown art six months ago, Yasaburo Akinaga now is an expert mushroom grower and picker
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Date:
1944-01-06
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Although mushroom growing was an unknown art six months ago, Yasaburo Akinaga now is an expert mushroom grower
and picker at the Illinois Mushroom Company, Naperville, Illinois. Akinaga is an issei who has lived in this country 24 years.
He is from the Manzanar relocation center and before that lived in Los Angeles, where he was in the produce business. Mushroom
growing and picking is done in total darkness, each worker wearing a small miner's lamp like the one above the brim of Akinaga's
cap. Akinaga is married and has brought his family out of the center. He came to the Midwest in November, 1943.<lb/> Naperville,
Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-266
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Although mushroom growing was an unknown art six months ago, Yasaburo Akinaga now is an expert mushroom grower and picker
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