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Title
Roy Kato enjoying his out-of-camp breakfast, Kato family album
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
Photographed is Roy Kato who snack out from the Heart Mountain camp, Wyoming, having breakfast at the Shoshone National Forest. (Kato family album).
The Kato and Shiimori Family Photographs contain photographs collected by Yvonne Achacoso, a student of a history class taught by Professor Donald Teruo Hata at CSU Dominguez Hills. She interviewed two Nisei Japanese Americans, Roy Yasuharu Kato and John Ishihei Iwatsuru who experienced the forced evacuation and incarceration during World War II. Kato was incarcerated in the Heart Mountain camp, Wyoming, and Iwatsuru was incarcerated in the Jerome camp, Arkansas and the Granada camp, Colorado. Their wives were both daughters of the Shiimori family, who was also incarcerated in the Jerome camp and the Gila River, Arizona. Included are photographs of the Gila River camp collected from the Shiimori family album as well as photographs depicting lives of the incarcerees in the Hear Mountain camp gathered from the Kato family album. All items originally belonged to the Donald Teruo Hata and Nadine Ishitani Hata Asian Pacific Studies Collection.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 3.5 x 2.5 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
kash_01_01_013
csudh_kash_0013
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/18253
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
Identity and values--Youth
Identity and values--Nisei
Place
Wyoming
Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Kato and Shiimori Family Photographs

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