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Full title:Giving the final touches to an ashtray, Mr. Kay Kato, age 38, Issei from the Rohwer Relocation Center, is engrossed in his work as Joe Shinyeda, twenty-three-year-old Nisei, looks over his work. Mr. Kato is employed with the Oriental Trading Company as a painter of figurines and is working part-time with the Murray Photographic Studio, where he is learning the retouching business. Mr. Kato's home town is San Francisco, California. Mr. Joe Shinyeda, who is employed by the Oriental Trading Company as a molder of plaster-of-Paris figurines, is from Seattle, Washington. Joe was evacuated to the Minidoka Center from which he relocated in February 1944 to Omaha. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Omaha, Nebraska.
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