Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Izuno and their sons Gene, 10 (left), and Herbert, 13, who are absorbed in a ...

1944-08

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

WRA no. I-353

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Full title:Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Izuno and their sons Gene, 10 (left), and Herbert, 13, who are absorbed in a game of anagrams share a frame house with a Caucasian family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. They relocated in June 1944 from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. The Izunos have two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor of the house, and share the downstairs living quarters. The other family was away on vacation when this photograph was taken. Mr. Izuno, an Issei, has been employed in Philadelphia by Eastern Cooperative Wholesale, Inc. His sons attend school in Swarthmore. Prior to evacuation the Izunos lived in Berkeley, California, and Mr. Izuno was employed as a cashier and in import-export work by a San Francisco bank. The Izunos went to Tule Lake in June 1942 and from there Heart Mountain. Mrs. Izuno's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Kambara, still reside at that center. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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