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Virginia Okubo is shown playing with her schoolmates in the playground of the St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights, ...
Published
1944-09-19
Full Collection Name
War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 circa 1941-1947
Other Identifiers
WRA no. I-619
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The Bancroft Library
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Full title:Virginia Okubo is shown playing with her schoolmates in the playground of the St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Virginia lives with her father and mother, Rokuro and Ayako Okubo, on a farm a few miles from Arlington Heights and goes back and forth by bus. She is the first Nisei to attend St. Peter Lutheran School and her teachers remark both at her brightness and at the ease with which she has made a great number of friends in the school. The Okubos were living in Los Angeles at the time of evacuation, Mr. Okubo having operated a vegetable market there, and they came to Illinois from Granada in April, 1944.<lb /> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb /> Palatine, Illinois.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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