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Title
Girls baseball team and manager at Poston II incarceration camp
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1944-1945
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All request for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Photograph of 10 young women and one man wearing a baseball cap. The girls in the front row are holding baseball bats and one girl is wearing baseball mitt. From Poston II Memories; Joan Oki Album #1, Page 18.
George Oki (Nisei), born March 9, 1927 to Magoichi and Masayo (nee Kamada) Oki in Sacramento, California. He was incarcerated at Pinedale Temporary Assembly Center and Poston II Incarceration Camp. He became a control tower operator in the Army Air Forces Communications System Unit in post-WWII occupied Japan at Itazuke Air Force Base in Kyushu, Japan.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 3.5 x 7.75 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
sac_oki_0142
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/57666
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Sports
Community activities--Sports--Basketball
Identity and values--Women
Identity and values--Youth
Place
Parker, Arizona
Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
George Oki Collection

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