Full title:Four American Japanese employed by the Illinois Mushroom Company have just brought in loaded baskets of mushrooms which they had picked from the mushroom beds which can be seen in the right and left hand sides of the picture. In the center is Mr. E. Peterson, manager of the Illinois Mushroom Company at Naperville, Illinois. 13 American Japanese are employed here as mushroom growers and pickers. In the picture from left to right are: Moi[?] Ohara, kneeling, an issei from Gardenia, California, who has lived in the United States 25 years. In California he was a farmer and he came to Naperville in November 1943 from Rohwer, Arkansas; Paul Sugishita, formerly prune grower from Coyote, California, who came to the Midwest from Heart Mountain in November 1943; Peterson; Tom Kodama, Gardenia, California farmer who resettled in the Midwest from Rohwer, Arkansas; and Raymond Hamasaki, kneeling, Los Altos, California farmer who came here from Heart Mountain.<lb /> Naperville, Illinois. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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