Nellie Takamoto, who relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in June 1944, is collating medical textbooks ...

1944-08

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

WRA no. I-351

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Full title:Nellie Takamoto, who relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in June 1944, is collating medical textbooks in a Philadelphia publishing house. A 1942 graduate of Placer Union High School in Auburn, California, she was an assistant librarian at Heart Mountain. Miss Takamoto intends to take a training course for librarians in Philadelphia, where she shares an apartment with an executive of the Visiting Nurse Association. Nellie's parents Mr. and Mrs. Yonezo Takamoto and her sisters Anne and Mrs. Mary Maeda still reside at Heart Mountain. Another sister, Sarah, works at a hospital in Cincinnati. Her brother Yoneo is a private with the U.S. Army in Italy. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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