Title:
In the living room of their New York City apartment, Mr. and Mrs. Misao Tajitsu, Issei from the Minidoka Relocation ...
Date:
1944-08
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:In the living room of their New York City apartment, Mr. and Mrs. Misao Tajitsu, Issei from the Minidoka Relocation
Center, are entertaining Shuji Sugawara, Issei, and his son Albert, newly arrived resettlers from Minidoka. Mr. Tajitsu is
seated at the extreme left. The only other member of the family at home when this photograph was taken was their 2-1/2 year
old son Ronald Setsuo. Kazuko, 22, and Utako, 17, were vacationing at a YWCA camp; and Yoneko, 19, was at Keuka College in
upstate New York, where she is a cadet nurse at Geneva Hospital. A fourth daughter, Teruko, 20, was married recently in New
York City to Andrew Morimoto, also formerly of Minidoka. Before evacuation from Seattle, Wash., in May 1942, Mr. Tajitsu had
been a wholesale grocery salesman. At Minidoka he was an interviewer in the employment department and executive secretary
of the Federated Christian Church. Mr. Tajitsu has been employed in the packing and shipping department of the National YMCA
Press in New York City since early last spring.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> New York, New York.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. I-420
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In the living room of their New York City apartment, Mr. and Mrs. Misao Tajitsu, Issei from the Minidoka Relocation ...