Although mushroom growing was an unknown art six months ago, Yasaburo Akinaga now is an expert mushroom grower and picker ...

1944-01-06

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

WRA no. G-266

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Full title:Although mushroom growing was an unknown art six months ago, Yasaburo Akinaga now is an expert mushroom grower and picker at the Illinois Mushroom Company, Naperville, Illinois. Akinaga is an issei who has lived in this country 24 years. He is from the Manzanar relocation center and before that lived in Los Angeles, where he was in the produce business. Mushroom growing and picking is done in total darkness, each worker wearing a small miner's lamp like the one above the brim of Akinaga's cap. Akinaga is married and has brought his family out of the center. He came to the Midwest in November, 1943. Naperville, Illinois.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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