Title:

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Suzuki, formerly of the Colorado River Relocation Center, are relaxing with Blackie in the bedroom of ...

Date:

1944-08

Subject:

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

Full title:Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Suzuki, formerly of the Colorado River Relocation Center, are relaxing with Blackie in the bedroom of their six room tenant house on the poultry farm of L. L. Logan at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, of which Mr. Suzuki is the manager. Mrs. Suzuki, the former Grace Takahashi of Berkeley, California, is employed as an optometrist's assistant in nearby Wilmington, Delaware. Both Mr. and Mrs. Suzuki attended the University of California at Berkeley, where Mrs. Suzuki studied optometry and Mr. Suzuki majored in agricultural economics. After graduation Mr. Suzuki did farming and fruit packing in Brawley, California. He was a supervisor of truck crops at Colorado River. The couple left Poston in December 1943 and settled first on a poultry farm in Ocean View, Delaware. In July 1944, they moved to the poultry farm at Kennett Square, near Philadelphia. Mr. Suzuki is a brother of the Rev. Lester Suzuki of the Des Moines Hostel. Mrs. Suzuki is a sister of Dr. William N. Takahashi, formerly on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, who is now studying plant pathology at the University of Rochester under a fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

WRA no. I-312

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement