Full title:The Okubo family is shown in the living room of their home on a farm near Palatine, Illinois. Joan, age 4, and Phyllis, age 2, are looking at a picture book which their mother, Ayako Okubo, is explaining to them. Their father, Rokuro Okubo, relaxes with book after a day's work on the 120-acre farm which he is operating for a Chicago professional man. The Okubos came to Illinois from Granada. Mr. Okubo formerly operated a market in Los Angeles. He gained his farm experience as a boy on his father's farm in the Pacific Northwest. He came to the United States from Japan when he was six years old. Mrs. Okubo was born in the State of Washington.<lb /> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb /> Palatine, Illinois. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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