Title:
Toshiko Torii and a fellow worker are putting the final touches to a dress in an exclusive New York custom ...
Date:
1944-04-25
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Toshiko Torii and a fellow worker are putting the final touches to a dress in an exclusive New York custom shop
where Miss Torii has been employed as a finisher since coming East in February 1944, from the Jerome Relocation Center. Prior
to evacuation in May, 1942, from Hanford, California, to the Fresno Assembly Center, Miss Torii was a private dressmaker.
Following her arrival at Jerome in November, 1942, she taught sewing and drafting in adult education classes there. Prior
to evacuation she herself had studied fashion design at the Milady Sewing School in Fresno and the Academy of Fashion Design
in San Francisco. She is a graduate of Clovis, California, Union High School. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Yorinari Torri, are
still living in Jerome. Her brother Yorio is in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<lb/> New York, New York.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-478
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Toshiko Torii and a fellow worker are putting the final touches to a dress in an exclusive New York custom ...