Mrs. Harvey Suzuki, who relocated with her husband from the Colorado River Relocation Center, is preparing a snack for him ...

1944-08

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

WRA no. I-314

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Full title:Mrs. Harvey Suzuki, who relocated with her husband from the Colorado River Relocation Center, is preparing a snack for him in the kitchen of the six room tenant house which they now occupy on the L. L. Logan poultry farm at Kennett Square, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Suzuki is the manager of the poultry farm, and Mrs. Suzuki, the former Grace Takahashi of Berkeley, California, is employed as an optometrist's assistant in nearby Wilmington, Delaware. Both Mr. and Mrs. Suzuki attended the University of California at Berkeley, where Mrs. Suzuki studied optometry and Mr. Suzuki majored in agricultural economics. After graduation Mr. Suzuki did farming and fruit packing in Brawley, California. He was a supervisor of truck crops at Colorado River. The couple left Poston in December 1943 and settled first on a poultry farm in Ocean View, Delaware. In July 1944, they moved to the poultry farm at Kennett Square, near Philadelphia. Mr. Suzuki is a brother of the Rev. Lester Suzuki of the Des Moines Hostel. Mrs. Suzuki is a sister of Dr. William N. Takahashi, formerly on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, who is now studying plant pathology at the University of Rochester under a fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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