Title:

Torao Suyehiro (left) and Shoichi Akutagawa, from the Heart Mountain Center, being interviewed in the personnel relations department of Seabrook ...

Date:

1944-08

Subject:

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

Full title:Torao Suyehiro (left) and Shoichi Akutagawa, from the Heart Mountain Center, being interviewed in the personnel relations department of Seabrook Farms and the Deerfield Packing Corporation, Bridgeton, N.J., by Mrs. Ellen Ayako Nakamura, formerly of Jerome. Mrs. Nakamura is a liaison officer between the evacuees and the management at Seabrook Farms, where over 400 evacuees are employed. The Japanese-American population at Seabrook is over 500. Prior to evacuation from Tulare, Calif., Mrs. Nakamura attended Visalia Junior College and helped her parents in their produce business. At Jerome, she was executive secretary of the relocation planning commission and a feature editor and later city editor of The Denson Tribune. She was married at Jerome on May 27, 1944, to Kiyomi Nakamura, who is also employed at Seabrook Farms as a cost accountant. Prior to evacuation Mrs. Nakamura was a Pacific Coast newspaper correspondent 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.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Seabrook Farms, New Jersey.

WRA no. I-684

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement