First evacuee family packs to return to California. Mrs. Saku Moriwaki, 33, (center) ties box of household goods for shipment ...

1945-01-03

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

WRA no. H-598

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Full title:First evacuee family packs to return to California. Mrs. Saku Moriwaki, 33, (center) ties box of household goods for shipment to Palo Alto, California, where she has accepted employment in the home of Mrs. R. A. Isenberg (2175 Cowper Street). Her sister, Miss Suga Baba, who plans to relocate to Chicago, writes the address on the box, while her two-year-old daughter, Suga Ann, also helps. Mrs. Moriwaki's husband, Pfc. Yoshiaki Moriwaki, 37, former Berkeley insurance broker, is in France. This is the first family to leave for the West Coast under the Western Defense Command's proclamation lifting its ban against persons of Japanese origin today. Photographer: Mace, Charles E. Topaz, Utah.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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