Title:
Spending a quiet evening in the living room of their furnished apartment in New York City are Mr. and Mrs. ...
Date:
1944-08
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Spending a quiet evening in the living room of their furnished apartment in New York City are Mr. and Mrs. Kenji
Sumi and Mrs. Sumi's sister, Miss June Okubo, all Issei from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Mrs. Sumi is seated in
the easy chair in the foreground. They found their apartment by answering an advertisement in a New York City newspaper. By
relocating to New York, Mr. and Mrs. Sumi, who were formerly engaged in domestic work in San Francisco, were enabled to learn
and practice a new trade as silk screen operators for the Meissner Colorcrafts, where they are both employed. Miss Okubo is
a secretary for Eastern Cooperative Wholesale. The Okubo sisters are graduates of Polytechnic High School, San Francisco;
Mr. Sumi was graduated from Lowell High School there. While at Heart Mountain, Mr. Sumi was employed in the housing field
office, Mrs. Sumi was a waitress in the mess hall, and Miss Okubo worked in the relocation office. Miss Okubo resettled in
New York last March and was followed in May by Mr. and Mrs. Sumi. The parents of the Okubo girls, Mr. and Mrs. Tadaaki Okubo,
and their brother Tadashige and his wife and child are still at Heart Mountain.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> New
York, New York.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. I-369
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Spending a quiet evening in the living room of their furnished apartment in New York City are Mr. and Mrs. ...