Japanese-American family makes plans to return to California home. The members of the Shikano family gathers around the crude table ...

1945-01-03

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

WRA no. H-597

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Full title:Japanese-American family makes plans to return to California home. The members of the Shikano family gathers around the crude table in their one-room barracks home at this Central Utah Relocation Center today and decide to leave for their Centerville, California, farm January 10. This will be one of the first evacuee families to return following revocation of the army's ban against persons of Japanese ancestry. Left to right: Mary, 24; Ichi, 61; Setsuye, 27, and her two-year-old daughter, Ritsuko; Ichizo, 67; Tomi, 25. The father of the little girl is in Centerville under special army permit making arrangements for their return. Photographer: Mace, Charles E. Topaz, Utah.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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