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[Evacuation mural]
Maker
Muramoto, Walter
Date1944-1945
DimensionsH: 2.5 in, W: 3.625 in
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of the Walter Muramoto Family
Object number97.292.17F
DescriptionMural titled, "Evacuation," painted by high school student, Teruyo Kishi, is propped on sawhorses against wall of wooden building at Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1944-1945. Mural depicts the forced removal of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II, including exterior scenes of people and woman and girl standing in front of a desk facing a Caucasian man below an image of multi-storey building flying an American flag; man and woman packing tools; family and packed boxes in front of open farmland and mountains; people being escorted to trains by soldiers; a woman burning items in trash can in front of a church while Caucasian man pays Japanese American man in front of a "Sale" sign in foreground, near packed belongings. Panel is signed (illegible) at bottom right. Image has irregular scalloped border. Appears to be a different version from mural in JANM collection (88.25.125G).;1 photographic print : b&w
Fukuzaki, Ben
ca. 1943-1955
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