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Two women eating watermelon on bridge over water in Japanese garden at Poston incarceration camp

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Title: Two women eating watermelon on bridge over water in Japanese garden 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
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Description: Photograph of two young women of Japanese descent wearing sunglasses, sitting on a bridge over a pond, and eating slices of watermelon. One woman is holding an umbrella. The camps barracks can be seen in the background. From Hashimoto Hashimoto Poston Photograph Album, page 12.
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, 4.25 x 3 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier: sac_hash_0020
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/57254
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions
Identity and values--Women
Identity and values--Nisei
Geographic communities--Arizona
Place: Poston, Arizona
Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
Relation: Hashimoto Family Collection

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