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 In the food store of the Wilmington, Delaware Cooperative Society, Inc., Tom Toyoji Yamane is putting to use the experience he gained in conducting his own produce business at Huntington, California, for four years prior to evacuation, 1944

  

 Mr. Kenji Muraoka, formerly of Los Angeles, California, and more 

recently of the Rohwer Relocation Center, is shown at work in his 

laboratory with Mrs. F. Brown. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1944

  

Mrs. Emon Ikuda has plenty of household tasks to keep her busy now 

since her return to their home near Kent, Washington, 1945

 

 Mrs. Harvey Suzuki is preparing a snack for him in the kitchen of the 

six-room tenant house which they now occupy on the L. L. Logan 

poultry farm at Kennett Square, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1944

  

 Mrs. Kiye Iyoya is shown at work with two Caucasian workers in the 

kitchen of the Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Her husband 

is also employed as barman at the same hotel. 1944

  

 Nisei instructors in the Japanese language are busy youngsters 

teaching army officers at Stanford University, 1945

  

 Pfc. Thomas Higa, 27-year-old Japanese American war veteran and smallest 

member of the 100th Battalion, who is in Denver to tell other Japanese Americans 

about the wonderful treatment the United States Army gives its soldiers, 1944

  

 Shibo Hayashi, his wife Kimiye, and daughter Kuye stand by the truck 

which carried their first load of cauliflower produced on their farm, 

located in Berlin Township, St. Clair County, Michigan, 1944

  

 The Poston, Arizona, Center is the former residence of the four bell hops 

shown in this picture. They are employed at the exclusive resort hotel, 

the Elms, located just north of Kansas City, Missouri, 1944

  

 This social has been dubbed COSMO NITE. For over half a year, 

evacuees and Caucasians have been meeting twice monthly for a 

Cosmo Nite at the YWCA in Kansas City, Missouri, 1945

   

 Three charming daughters of Henry Nomura pose for their picture 

outside the Nomura home in Madison, Wisconsin, 1944

  

University of Connecticut campus group with Caucasian and Nisei friends, 1944

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 A walk through New York City's Riverside Park on a mid-summer 

Saturday afternoon is providing exercise and relaxation for four young resettlers, 1944

  

 Hospitalized at Dibble General Hospital, Menlo Park, California is Corp. Minoru Yoshida 

of the 100th, from Honolulu, shown here talking with Mrs. Jack Epstein, member 

of the Public Relations staff of the hospital, 1945

  

 Miss Tee Mikami, formerly of Los Angeles and the Colorado River Center, discusses plans 

for a party menu with an associate at the YWCA, Kansas City, Missouri, 1945

  

 Mr. and Mrs. Zensaku Ichimura, an Issei couple, returned to the farm 

of their adopted son, Henry Umino, who is expected to return soon from 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife have relocated, 1945

  

 Mrs. Henry Akiyama is pictured on her Pacific Gold Fish Farm, 

Garden Grove, California, 1945

  

 Mrs. Kim Obata, a registrar for the Girl Scouts, 

answers her calls for registration. St. Louis, 1944

  

 On the Roscoe Zukerman farm's repair garage at Camp #21, Mandeville Island, Stockton, California, are employed two former Rohwer evacuees, Tak Wakabayashi and Toru Okazaki, 1945 

 

 Shown at the entrance to their new home, a cottage set in an apple orchard 

on the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware, are Mr. and Mrs. Tom Toyoji Yamane, 

Issei from the Gila River Relocation Center, and their four children, 1944

  

 Shown is a group of FPHA employees, San Francisco, 1945

[FPHA = Federal Public Housing Authority]

  

 Steven Sakaguchi, left, and Sharon Sakaguchi, cousins, enjoy life in Bellevue farm home of their parents, the Taki and the Takeshi Sakaguchis, who owns a 10-acre fruit and vegetable farm, 1945

  

 Surrounded by members of her typing class is Harriet Yanaga, Nisei student 

newly enrolled at the Southeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri, 1944

  

 Thelma Takeda is the first Nisei student to return to San Jose State College, 1945

  

Virginia Okubo is shown playing with her schoolmates in the playground 

of the St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, 1944

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These are photos of Japanese-Americans, post-Internment.

 A moment of relaxation at Bill Mori's K & J Restaurant, 

88 E. Main Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1944

  

 Alice Yamaoka, formerly of Poston, Marci Sakai, formerly of Gila River, and Florence Abe, formerly of Tule Lake, in Alice and Florence's apartment in St. Louis, Missouri, 1945

  

 During a recess at Emerson School, the children are all enjoying 

a ride on the Merry-Go-Round. St. Louis, Missouri, 1944

  

 Group of girls thinning grapes at the C. R. Van Buskrik vineyard near Lodi, California, 1945

  

 I'm very proud of my husband, says Mrs. John M. Sakai, as she shows the Purple Heart 

to her guest Aiko Shintani. Her husband was wounded in Italy in July, 1944

  

 Ichi Kawajiri (left) and Takeo Yoshino (right) are shown with Wilfred Johnson, a Jamaican, 

filling sacks with carrots in the Vegetable Packing House on Chicago's west side, 1944

  

 Little Judith Yamamoto went to the grocery store with her mother but was stopped outside 

by some admiring children. The Verlin Yamamoto family, formerly of San Francisco 

and Gila River, have resettled in Des Moines, Iowa, 1945

  

 May Ideta, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kiyoshi Ideta-Minami, formerly 

of Seattle and the Minidoka Center, at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 1945

  

 Mineko Hirasaki of Gilroy in the foreground and her sister Fumiko at the fish pond 

of the beautiful family residence on their 550-acre vegetable farm. Gilroy, California, 1945

  

 Mr. and Mrs. Ryozo Hirata and son, as well as Mr. T. Yonemura, father of 

Mrs. Hirata and S. Koyama, 2050 Harrison Street, Arlington, California, 1945

  

 Mr. and Mrs. Shigeharu Takahashi and son, Jerrold, age 19 months, 

are standing in front of their home in San Mateo, 1945

  

Mrs. Chick Uno with her daughters, Sheila and Naomi, 

in their flower garden at their home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 1944

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Hikaru Iwasaki was the only Japanese-American to be a full-time staff photographer for the WRA, chronicling the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. There's a book about him.

 Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Clara Hasegawa, Jerome resident, 

whose new home will be the Rohwer Center. 1944

 Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Farewell hand clasps as the train bearing 500 Jerome residents leaves for the Gila River Center. 1944

 Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. A group of interested youngsters 

view the last showing of the final attraction Sahara in the recently completed 

recreation hall at the Jerome Center. 1944

 Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Farewell wiener roast held in one of the open spaces between blocks the evening before the participants depart for other centers. 1944

 Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Friends bid goodbye to Harold Oychida who served as car monitor on the June 13th trip to the Gila River. 1944

 Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Three young students of the Denson High School, in the Jerome Center, exchange addresses. 1944

 Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Young folks enjoy a final dance 

in one of the recreation halls before their departure to other centers. 1944

 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Yoshio Kodama and their small son, Junior, 

give their passes to Pfc. Courtland Dalheim of the Military Police at the 

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, as they leave the gate prior to relocation. 1944

 Mr. and Mrs. Sashihara and their children preparing to give their passes 

to the Military Police at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, as they leave 

the gate for a new home. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1944

 Pretty Hideo Takehara, 18-year-old Heart Mountain high school student, 

formerly of Los Angeles, California. 1944

 Mrs. Mari Yashida looks at her baby through the plate glass window of the nursery, as nurse's aide Nobuko Hirashima returns it to its crib after feeding. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1943

 The Katayama twins, Itoko and Setsuko, in the 6B class at the Grant School, are shown as they go home for their noon lunch, being directed across the street along with other pupils by the young safety student. Des Moines, Iowa, 1944

 The Katayama twins, Itoko and Setsuko, in the 6B class at the Grant School, are shown at recess time with their classmates on the playground. Des Moines, Iowa, 1944

 The Katayama twins, Itoko and Setsuko, in the 6B class at the Grant School, are shown with other pupils of Miss Lorraine Lange, their teacher, in a reading lesson. Des Moines, Iowa, 1944

Scene in the Heart Mountain High School library, as Miss Mickey Yabe helps a fellow student with some research work in ancient history. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1943