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Photograph of Mary Nishimura Shimizu, smiling and sitting by a pond at Poston Incarceration Camp. Barracks are in the background. Note on photo reads: Uncle Ace worked for their family in Clovis on ranch (fruit and vegetable). From Hashimoto Poston Photograph Album, page 41. Suyeko Sue Hashimoto (nee Yagura) was born in 1921 in Sanger, California to Nakazo and Chiye Yagura. She was incarcerated in Poston, Arizona. Her brother, Mitsuru “Mits” Yagura served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and participated in the rescue of the Lost Battalion. Sue married Yasuo Hashimoto, the second son of a farming family in the Bradshaw area of Sacramento, California.
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Photographs black and white, 5 x 4 inches image/jpeg
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees World War II--Incarceration camps--Housing--Barracks World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions Identity and values--Japanese American identity Identity and values--Women Geographic communities--Arizona
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