Terumitsu Akita, who was a vegetable farmer near Stockton, California, prior to evacuation of the Japanese Americans from the West ...

1944-06-15

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

WRA no. G-611

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Full title:Terumitsu Akita, who was a vegetable farmer near Stockton, California, prior to evacuation of the Japanese Americans from the West Coast early in 1942, is shown at work on the farm of Ed B. Phillips near Aurora, Illinois. Akita is cutting asparagus and is one of the group of 60 men contracted for the asparagus growers near Aurora and Naperville to harvest their asparagus. The contract was arranged for between the Illinois Mushroom Company, who operates an asparagus cannery at Naperville, and the War Food Administration, the Farm Extension Service, and the War Relocation Authority. Akita and the entire group of seasonal workers came to Illinois from the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Naperville, Illinois.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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