Title:

Mrs. Ellen Ayako Nakamura, liaison officer between the management of Seabrook Farms and the Deerfield Packing Corporation, Bridgeton, N.J., and ...

Date:

1944-08

Subject:

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

Full title:Mrs. Ellen Ayako Nakamura, liaison officer between the management of Seabrook Farms and the Deerfield Packing Corporation, Bridgeton, N.J., and the over 400 evacuees employed there, is conferring with A. A. Behling, liaison officer between the Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration. Mr. Behling is also in charge of the Seabrook cafeteria. Prior to evacuation from Tulare, Calif., Mrs. Nakamura attended Visalia Junior College and helped her parents in their produce business. At the Fresno Assembly Center she was editor of The Grapevine. At Jerome she was executive secretary of the location planning commission, and a feature editor and later city editor of The Denson Tribune. She was married at Jerome on May 1944 to Kiyomi Nakamura, who is also employed at Seabrook Farms as a cost accountant. They went to Rohwer on the closing of Jerome. Prior to evacuation Mrs. Nakamura was a Pacific Coast newspaper correspondent for Japanese-language newspapers. For years she was a feature writer for the Rafu Shimpo of Los Angeles, for which she conducted the Nisei Merry-Go-Round column. In April 1944 Mrs. Nakamura was a member of a delegation representing the relocation planning commission of Jerome which visited Seabrook Farms during an inspection tour of relocation opportunities. The parents of Mr. and Mrs. Nakamura were all former residents of Jerome and are now at Rohwer. The Japanese-American population at Seabrook is over 500.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Seabrook Farms, New Jersey.

WRA no. I-683

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement