There is much to talk about as farm housewives get together for a visit on neighboring farms near Elkhorn, Wisconsin. ...

1944-09-17

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

WRA no. I-499

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Full title:There is much to talk about as farm housewives get together for a visit on neighboring farms near Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Mrs. George Shoji (left) is holding her baby son, Lynn, 1-1/2 months, as she talks to Mrs. Rohloff in the latter's home across the road from that occupied by Mrs. Shoji and her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Ike, who is shown at the right holding her baby son, George Ike, Jr. The Shoji and Ike families are sharecropping a 120-acre vegetable farm together with Mrs. Ike's father, Joseph Sakamoto and his family consisting of his wife Hisa and their children, George and Roy and Sally. The three families came to Wisconsin from Rohwer in the spring of 1944. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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