Shoichiro Inada, Issei resettler employed by the Vegetable Packing House, Chicago, helps Fred Sietmann, vegetable grower from Des Plaines, Illinois, ...
Published
1944-09-16
Full Collection Name
War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 circa 1941-1947
Full title:Shoichiro Inada, Issei resettler employed by the Vegetable Packing House, Chicago, helps Fred Sietmann, vegetable grower from Des Plaines, Illinois, unload a truck full of carrots on to a conveyor belt in the vegetable packing plant where Inada and a number of other Nisei and Issei are employed. Inada and his fellow resettlers work side by side in this plant with Caucasians and a group of Negroes from Jamaica. Work in the plant is on a year-round basis, and the plant has recently completed arrangements for leasing quarters for its Japanese and Japanese-American employees. From the conveyor belt vegetables are moved through washing and packing operations inside the plant.<lb /> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb /> Chicago, Illinois. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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