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Description
Photographed is a woman performing a Hula dance in the Heart Mountain camp, Wyoming. The caption reads: Japanese-Americans enjoy themselves as a Hula dancer performs during a New Year's eve celebration, 1945, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. (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, 5 x 7 inches image/jpeg
World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities Community activities--Festivals, celebrations, and holidays--New Year festivals Arts and literature--Performing arts--Dance
Place
Cody, Wyoming Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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