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Title: Men wearing hats and suitcases at Poston incarceration camp
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1942-1945
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Photograph of four men of Japanese descent wearing hats and two suitcases on the ground in front of them. A barrack and electrical pole can be seen in the background. From Hashimoto Poston Photograph Album, page 22.
Suyeko Sue Hashimoto (nee Yagura) was born in 1921 in Sanger, California to Nakazo and Chiye Yagura. She was incarcerated in Poston, Arizona. Her brother, Mitsuru “Mits” Yagura served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and participated in the rescue of the Lost Battalion. Sue married Yasuo Hashimoto, the second son of a farming family in the Bradshaw area of Sacramento, California.
Type: image
Format: Photographs
black and white, 4 x 3 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier: sac_hash_0042
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/57234
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
Identity and values--Men
Geographic communities--Arizona
Place: Poston, Arizona
Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
Relation: Hashimoto Family Collection

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