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Photographed are Katsuji Sasaki (2nd son at age 9 years and 8 months), Minoru Sasaki (at age 40 years and 5 months), Noboru Sasaki (3rd son at age 7 years and 2 months), Yaeko Sasaki (Satoru's wife at age 19 years and 6 months), Matsuyo Sasaki (mother at age 71), Shoji Sasaki (1st son at age 12 years and 8 months), Itsuo Sasaki (4th son at age 4), Satoru Sasaki (brother at age 37 years and 5 months), Fusako Sasaki (wife at 35 years and 6 months), Takashi Sasaki (5th son at age 9 months), and Mieko Sasaki (1st daughter at age 15 years and 3 months). The arrival date and location of this photograph, February 24, 1950, Whittier [California], are recorded on the backside. This photograph is enclosed in an envelope, which is found in item: csudh_oki_0223. The Okine Collection contains materials collected by Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine who were Issei flower growers in Whittier, California. It includes correspondence, photographs, financial documents, and a photo album. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence with Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, including letters from their Nisei children, Masao and Makoto Okine, both soldiers overseas during World War II, to their Issei parents incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas. The correspondence also includes letters from their relatives and friends who are former incarcerees in the camps during the war and have “resettled” in Chicago, Illinois as well as letters from the Okines’ family members in Hiroshima, Japan during the Allied occupation of Japan. In addition, the collection includes a family photo album compiled by Dorothy Ai Aoki, a Nisei daughter to the Okines.
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image
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Photographs black and white, 4.5 x 5.75 image/jpeg
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