Title:

In the office of a leading architectural and engineering firm in Jersey City, New Jersey, two Issei draftsmen, Geroge Gentoku ...

Date:

1944-08

Subject:

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

Full title:In the office of a leading architectural and engineering firm in Jersey City, New Jersey, two Issei draftsmen, Geroge Gentoku Shimamoto and Takashi Kondo, are continuing the profession which they studied and practiced before evacuation. With a fellow worker, Mr. Shimamoto (left, with glasses) and Mr. Kondo are drawing sketches for a postwar housing project. Before evacuation from San Francisco to the Central Utah Relocation Center, Mr. Shimamoto had been in his own architectural and construction business, an architectural draftsman, and technical adviser to the Golden Gate Fair. He was resident supervisor of the engineering section at Central Utah, where his wife, two children, and parents still reside. He is a graduate of Clovis Union High School and Polytechnic College in Oakland, where he was awarded the bachelor of science degree in architectural engineering. Mr. Shimamoto is planning to bring his family East as soon as he can find suitable housing. Mr. Kondo was a screen set designer at the MGM Studios in Culver City, California, for seven years prior to evacuation from San Pedro, California, to the Rohwer Relocation Center. He was a clerk in the post office at Rohwer, where his parents and married sister still reside. He is a graduate of San Pedro High School and the Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles, where he studied commercial art and architectural drafting.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Jersey City, New Jersey.

WRA no. I-406

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement