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[Niiya family in room, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945]
[Niiya family in room, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945]
[Niiya family in room, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945]

[Niiya family in room, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945]

Date1942-1945
DimensionsH: 2.5 in, W: 3.625 in
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of the Walter Muramoto Family
Object number97.292.13S
DescriptionPortrait of Niiya family composed of a couple and four smiling girls in dresses inside a room next to an open crate in Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945. Three smiling girls sit on a bench beside a mustached man with little girl in white dress standing in front of him. A woman in a patterned dress and eyeglasses stands to the back at left. They are identified (left to right): Ruth Ayako Niiya (mother), Emi, Pat, Rhoda, Kamekichi Niiya (father), and Laura Mae (front). An upholstered bench with wooden arms and frame is partially visible at bottom left. Carvings and decorative objects hang on walls in background. Large unidentified carving, several feet high, is displayed in large wooden crate or box frame. Image has irregular scalloped border.;1 photographic print : b&w

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