4_published objects

Homma_Chair_Stewart_Manzanar

Photo: Francis Stewart, Manzanar, CA, 2/10/1943
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration
and the Online Archive of California
original WRA caption:
“Children are taught democratic games in the nursery school at the Relocation Center.
All desks, chairs, and other furnishings are made in the furniture factory by evacuee workers.”

Homma_Chair_Okubo_4

drawing: Miné Okubo, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, spring 1942
from “Citizen 13660,” a book of drawings and text by Miné Okubo
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/OKUCIC.html

Homma_chair_woman_shop

Photographer: unknown, Minidoka, ID, c 1944
Courtesy of the Mitsuoka Family Collection
(Densho description) “Barracks apartments were furnished only with a coal-burning stove and a cot.
Consequently, many camp inmates made furniture from scrap lumber.”

Homma_Chair_Takayanagi

Takayanagi family army issue folding stools, Poston
Collection of Nancy Ukai
photo: David Izu

Homma_Chair_Nakagawa

Folding Chair, Poston, AZ,
made by Toshimatsu Nakagawa
Collection of Mark Izu, photo: David Izu