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Full title:Little Mira Nakashima is following in her father's footsteps as she drives a nail into a piece of wood outside his workshop. George Nakashima, an architect, formerly of Seattle and Minidoka, is now living in the country near New Hope, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Marion, and 3-year-old Mira. In a small workshop which he has set up he is designing furniture for Hans Knoll, Associates, a wholesale furniture firm in New York City, and is making pieces for individual customers and for his own use. Mira spends a lot of time with her father in the workshop, has learned to use a hammer, drill, end plane, scorns miniature tools. Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen New Hope, Pennsylvania. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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