Title:
Rokuro Okubo stops his tractor to talk to a Chicago District Office relocation officer, W. W. Lessing (back to camera) ...
Date:
1944-09-19
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Rokuro Okubo stops his tractor to talk to a Chicago District Office relocation officer, W. W. Lessing (back to
camera) about the prospects for his corn crop. Mr. Okubo is farming 120 acres, mostly in corn and soy beans, for his employer,
a Chicago professional man. Mr. Okubo, his wife, and three daughters, Phyllis, age 2; Joan, age 4; and Virginia, age 8, live
in a modern home on the estate-type farm. They came to the farm near Palatine, Illinois, from Granada Relocation Center in
April, 1944. Prior to evacuation, they lived in Los Angeles where Mr. Okubo operated a vegetable market.<lb/> Photographer:
Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Palatine, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. I-613
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Rokuro Okubo stops his tractor to talk to a Chicago District Office relocation officer, W. W. Lessing (back to camera) ...