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Toshiye Shimomura from the Colorado River Relocation Center is now working as a typist at the Social Service Exchange in ...
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1944-10
Full Collection Name
War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 circa 1941-1947
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WRA no. G-744
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The Bancroft Library
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Full title:Toshiye Shimomura from the Colorado River Relocation Center is now working as a typist at the Social Service Exchange in Philadelphia, Pa. She is living at a private home in nearby Swarthmore, where her sister is employed as a domestic. Both girls graduated from the Salinas, California High School, and Toshiye graduated from Salinas Junior College. Both girls had jobs while at Poston, Toshiye as a typist-clerk in the personnel office, Sachi in the Community activities music program and later as a clerk and as a nursery school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Shungo Shimomura and five of their other children came to Philadelphia to be near the girls. They are now living on the Ritchie fruit and poultry farm at nearby Riverton, N.J.<lb /> Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen<lb /> Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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