Title:

Mrs. Yachiyo Sumi, Issei from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, is now practicing an entirely new trade as a silk ...

Date:

1944-08

Subject:

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

Full title:Mrs. Yachiyo Sumi, Issei from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, is now practicing an entirely new trade as a silk screen operator in the New York City plant of Meissner Colorcrafts. Before evacuation in May 1942 to the Pomona Assembly Center from San Francisco, she and her Issei husband, Kenji Sumi, were engaged in domestic work in San Francisco. Mr. Sumi is now also employed at Meissner Colorcrafts. They share a furnished apartment with Mrs. Sumi's sister, Miss June Okubo, a secretary. While at Heart Mountain, Mrs. Sumi was a waitress in the mess, and Mr. Sumi worked in the housing field office. The parents of the Okubo sisters, Mr. and Mrs. Tadaaki Okubo, and their married brother Tadashige and his wife and child are still at Heart Mountain. The Okubo sisters are graduates of Polytechnic High School, San Francisco; Mr. Sumi was graduated from Lowell High School there. Miss Okubo came to New York in March 1944 and was joined there two months later by her sister and brother-in-law.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> New York, New York.

WRA no. I-371

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement