MAKE A MEME View Large Image Sacramento County, California. A soldier and his mother in a strawberry field. The soldier . . . - NARA - 536475.jpg Scope and content The full caption for this photograph reads Florin Sacramento County California A soldier and his mother ...
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Keywords: Florin, Sacramento County, California. A soldier and his mother in a strawberry field. The soldier . . . - NARA - 536475.jpg Scope and content The full caption for this photograph reads Florin Sacramento County California A soldier and his mother in a strawberry field The soldier age 23 volunteered July 10 1941 and is stationed at Camp Leonard Wood Missouri He was furloughed to help his mother and family prepare for their evacuation He is the youngest of six children two of them volunteers in United States Army The mother age 53 came from Japan 37 years ago Her husband died 21 years ago leaving her to raise six children She worked in a strawberry basket factory until last year when her children leased three acres of strawberries so she wouldn't have to work for somebody else The family is Buddhist This is her youngest son Her second son is in the army stationed at Fort Bliss 453 families are to be evacuated from this area General notes 536475 Local identifier 210-G-A585 Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority 02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946 NARA-Author Lange Dorothea 1895-1965 Photographer 1372774 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1942-05-11 Record group Record Group 210 Records of the War Relocation Authority 1941 - 1989 Record group ARC 537 Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority compiled 1942 - 1945 Series ARC 536000 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-210-G-A585 Other versions <gallery> File Florin _Sacramento_County _California _A_soldier_and_his_mother_in_a_strawberry_field _The_soldier_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_536475 tif tif File Florin _Sacramento_County _California _A_soldier_and_his_mother_in_a_strawberry_field _The_soldier_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_536475 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dorothea Lange Buddhism in the United States Japanese American internment processing in Florin Mothers and children in the United States
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