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photograph
Maker
Iwata, Jack
Date1942-1945
DimensionsH: 7 3/4 in, W: 9 1/2 in
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of Jack and Peggy Iwata
Object number93.102.138
Description1 b&w image of 7 teenagers playing various musical instruments. 2 boys are playing the guitar; 1 boy playing a washboard; 1 boy playing a homemade bass; 1 girl is playing the accordion. 2 girls watching. All having matching shirts. There is a sign that reads: "Eddie Tanaka's Sierra Stars-Manzanar". A mention in the Manzanar Free Press, September 11, 1942 (page 3, Canteen Cowboy segment) mentions that the shirts are made of red bandanas!
Sagara, Tomojiro
circa 1941-1942
Sagara, Tomojiro
ca. mid-1950s
Fukuzaki, Ben
ca. 1943-1955
Hashizume, Naokichi
1936-1939
Uemura, Susan Hashizume
1953-1954
Hirasaki, Tetsuzo
1944