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Description
A group photograph of Mamie Yoshiko Sakamoto with her family members at Ishida home on Eta Island, Hiroshima, Japan. From left to right: Tsuneko Ishida (Atsushi Art Ishida's cousin), Ruby Ishida (his sister), Tomoko Ishida (his cousin's daughter), Mitsuko Sakamoto (bride's sister), Masaye Matsuba (his sister), Mamie Yoshiko Sakamoto, Dr. Mitsuyo Nishimoto, Saku Ishida (his mother), Seiko Matsuba (his niece), and Hideko Ishida (his cousin). A photo from: Korean War Photo Album (csudh_ats_2501), page 4. The Atsushi Art Ishida Collection is comprised of photographs, negatives, camp newspapers, WRA documents, memorabilia, and correspondence chronicling his time immediately after the exclusion order and during his incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, the Jerome camp in Arkansas, the Tule Lake camp in California, and the Minidoka camp in Idaho, as well as digital reproductions of photographs documenting his life in Japan and Artesia, California during the pre-war years and his time during the Korean War. The majority of the photographs in the collection were taken by Atsushi Art Ishida and he would often develop them in his room in the barracks where he had constructed a makeshift dark room in the camp. His photographs depict the life in the incarceration camps, capturing the buildings, such as barracks, guard towers, a hospital, fire station, and warehouse, the workers for farming, laundry, mess hall, and logging, and the sports games that the incarcerees played. Also photographed are the farewell scenes in which the incarcerees who were being transferred from the Jerome camp to the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
Community activities--Weddings Identity and values--Kibei Identity and values--Nisei Japan--Post-World War II Military service--Postwar occupation of Japan
Place
Eta Island, Japan
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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