Figure 1.--Here is a wonderful portrait of a Japanese American family. Unfortunately there is no informatiin associated with it. We would guess it was taken about 1930. We think the five children were photographed with their mother. |
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Here is a wonderful portrait of a Japanese American family. Unfortunately there is no informatiin associated with it. We would guess it was taken about 1930. We think the five children were photographed with their mother. The little girl wears a sailor styled dress. The youngest boy wears a sailor suit. What we are confused
about is that the three older boys wear a military-styled uniform. They are not Boy Scout uniforms. We thought they might be military school uniforms, but the uniforms do not have any badges of any kind, suggesting it is not a military school uniform. The older boy has a darker uniform than the two other boys. Thus we are unsure just what these uniforms are. We do not know where this portrait was taken, but it was quite likely California as the Japanese American population was concentrated there and in Hawaii. If they are from California, they would have been, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harborn, confined to internment camps in 1942.
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