Title:

Tamejiro Kiraoka came to the United States in 1903. For a while he worked on farms and then succeeded in ...

Date:

1944-01-27

Subject:

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

Full title:Tamejiro Kiraoka came to the United States in 1903. For a while he worked on farms and then succeeded in securing 80 acres to farm for himself. In the ensuing years he made a garden spot of it; the last work in equipment, each field scientifically irrigated and tile drained, grape crops among the finest of Fresno County. During the years of hard work he built a home and raised 8 children and in 1921 retired to enjoy the fruits of his labor. His older son, Harry, bought a neighboring farm of 40 acres and began to follow in the footsteps of his father. Pearl Harbor and its subsequent evacuation found the second son with his own law office in Fresno, after 9 years of university, the third working on his father's farm, the fourth in medical training; and the fifth son in high school. One of the girls is married, one at work as a secretary, and the other at home. The family was sent to the Gila River Center, where they lived until November of 1943, and then relocated to Moorestown, N.J. Those members of the family who are at home on their 3-acre farm are Harry, the elder son, who now manages a Co-op Store in Moorestown; Ross, home from the Army at Camp Shelby; and with him, his Hawaiian friend, Gilbert Hakoda. Alice (in over-alls, who works with the American Friends Service Committee at Philadelphia) and Fusa (in the white blouse) helps her mother at home.<lb/> Photographer: Parker, Tom<lb/> Moorestown, New Jersey.

WRA no. I-24

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement