Title:

The Nakamizo sisters, Eiko, 20, left, and Teruko, 17, are clerks in the record room of Mt. Sinai Hospital in ...

Date:

1944-08

Subject:

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

Full title:The Nakamizo sisters, Eiko, 20, left, and Teruko, 17, are clerks in the record room of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. Nearly 30 other evacuees are employed there in various capacities. Prior to evacuation to the Central Utah Relocation Center, they lived with their family in San Francisco, where they were attending school. Eiko is a graduate of Lowell High School in San Francisco and attended the University of California; she was a cadet teacher at Central Utah. Teruko completed her high school studies there. Teruko and her sister have been attending a business school on summer evenings and plan to continue with their college studies in the fall. Also in New York are their Issei parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hideji Nakamizo, their aunt Miss Aisa Deguchi, and their younger sister Mitsuko, 15, who is a senior at George Washington High School. At Central Utah Mr. Nakamizo was a block councilman and an interviewer in the relocation office. He is now employed as an apprentice in a lapidary plant in New York City.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> New York, New York.

WRA no. I-396

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement