Mizuye Hirose packing vegetables

Image shows view of wooden vegetable crates stacked on top of an elevated wooden stand with a young women partially visible behind the crates. A girl wearing a dress is visible at left and an older women wearing a hat is visible at right. The wooden crates are stamped with "San Pedro Vegetables Marketing Co. Los Angeles." Identified from left to right: Ruriko Hirose, Mizuye Hirose and Tomiko Hirose., Library has digital image only, courtesy of Mutsuo Hirose., Mizuye Hirose was born to Sadahei Hirose and Tomiko Hirose (nee Hamaya). Born in San Pedro, she was the oldest daughter of six children. Mizuye graduated from Malaga Cove School in 1939. During WWII, Mizuye was taken to the Santa Anita Assembly Center with her family and later sent to the Granada War Relocation Project. The family was shipped to Ellis Island for embarkation. From Ellis Island the Hirose family was shipped to the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arizona. In September 1943, they were sent to Tule Lake, CA where they remained until the end of the war. Mizuye returned to Los Angeles and married Kiyoshi Kawaguchi in 1954. She died in 2008.
Abstract/Description: Image shows view of wooden vegetable crates stacked on top of an elevated wooden stand with a young women partially visible behind the crates. A girl wearing a dress is visible at left and an older women wearing a hat is visible at right. The wooden crates are stamped with "San Pedro Vegetables Marketing Co. Los Angeles." Identified from left to right: Ruriko Hirose, Mizuye Hirose and Tomiko Hirose.
Subject(s): Japanese American women
Vegetables--California
Hirose, Mizuye (1925-2008)
Hirose, Ruriko (1926-2001)
Hirose, Tomiko (1898-1980)
1931-1940
Title: Mizuye Hirose packing vegetables.
Name(s): Hirose, Mutsuo, donor
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Other Date: ca 1936
Physical Form: image/jpeg
Language: eng
Abstract/Description: Image shows view of wooden vegetable crates stacked on top of an elevated wooden stand with a young women partially visible behind the crates. A girl wearing a dress is visible at left and an older women wearing a hat is visible at right. The wooden crates are stamped with "San Pedro Vegetables Marketing Co. Los Angeles." Identified from left to right: Ruriko Hirose, Mizuye Hirose and Tomiko Hirose.
Identifier(s): 000044057 (Barcode)
Note(s):

Library has digital image only, courtesy of Mutsuo Hirose.

Mizuye Hirose was born to Sadahei Hirose and Tomiko Hirose (nee Hamaya). Born in San Pedro, she was the oldest daughter of six children. Mizuye graduated from Malaga Cove School in 1939. During WWII, Mizuye was taken to the Santa Anita Assembly Center with her family and later sent to the Granada War Relocation Project. The family was shipped to Ellis Island for embarkation. From Ellis Island the Hirose family was shipped to the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arizona. In September 1943, they were sent to Tule Lake, CA where they remained until the end of the war. Mizuye returned to Los Angeles and married Kiyoshi Kawaguchi in 1954. She died in 2008.
Subject(s): Japanese American women
Vegetables--California
Hirose, Mizuye (1925-2008)
Hirose, Ruriko (1926-2001)
Hirose, Tomiko (1898-1980)
1931-1940
Held by: Palos Verdes Library District, Peninsula Center Library.
Location: Local History Center
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