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George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note describing his business at the Tule Lake camp in California. English translation: Geroge Naohara made postcards, adding his illustrations on blank cards, and sold them at the Post Exchange at the Tule Lake camp where his old friend worked. George's friend helped him to sell his postcards at the store. The friend used to be a intermediary for vegetables at a market on the 7th Street, Downtown Los Angeles before the war, purchasing lettuces for retailers in Long Beach. Because George and he were acquaintances for a long time, the friend agreed to help George to sell the postcards at the his work place at the Tule Lake. George mail ordered a printer and printed images on postcards, working with Atsushi Art Ishida and George Kimura who resided in Block 7 at the camp. They purchased a blank postcard at 1 cent and sold a printed postcard at 30 cents. They earned 250 dollars for each share and left for Chicago to reestablish their lives. Item from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 23. The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war.
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