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Description
Photograph of five pharmacists sitting on the steps of the Jerome incarceration camp hospital. L to R: George Arita, George Takagi, Michi Toshiyuki, Johnny Toshiyuki, and Tom Arase. From Hiroshi Takemoto Photograph Album (sac_take_0001), page 7. Source: caption in photo album. Gosaburo Takemoto was proprietor of a drug store in Sacramento's Japantown. His son, Hiroshi, was born in 1914. Hiroshi Takemoto graduated from the University of California School of Pharmacy in 1940. He married Tsugie Dairiki and worked in his father's store. During the WWII incarceration period, the Takemoto's were incarcerated at Tule Lake, California and Jerome, Arkansas. After the war, Hiroshi "Doc" and Tsugie "Rose" opened Main Drug Store in Loomis, California.
Type
image
Format
Photographs black and white, 2.5 x 3.5 inches image/jpeg
World War II--Incarceration camps--Medical care and health issues Industry and employment--Medicine World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Men
Place
Denson, Arkansas Incarceration Camps--Jerome
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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