Takako Matsumoto (left) and Ritsuko Nakaji [Kanaji] (right) stroll along a street in New York City where they have resettled. ...

1944-07-18

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 circa 1941-1947

WRA no. G-639

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Full title:Takako Matsumoto (left) and Ritsuko Nakaji [Kanaji] (right) stroll along a street in New York City where they have resettled. Ritsuko formerly lived in Terminal Island, California, before evacuation to Manzanar. In Manzanar she worked as a secretary in the Town Hall and on the Free Press. Resettling in New York, Ritsuko is a general office worker in an educational foundation and attends New York University in the evening. Takako is from Minidoka, to which she was evacuated from Seattle. She worked at the circulation department of the Irrigator and since coming to New York, she is employed as a general office worker helping evacuees with their problems. New York, New York.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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