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Momoyo Yamamoto shown here topping a large Daikon at Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona.

Scope & Content Note:
The full caption for this photograph reads: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Momoyo Yamamoto, formerly from Fresno, California, shown here topping a large Daikon, a large radish like vegetable which is a great delicacy among the Japanese people. It is eaten either raw, cooked or pickled. The seed for this crop was loaned by Min Omata, unit foreman, from Fresno, California. This center harvested 65 acres of this vegetable, and is the only War Relocation Authority project growing it in large quantities.

ARC Identifier: 538620

Local Identifier: 210-G-D659

Creator: Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. (02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946) ( Most Recent)

Type of Archival Materials:
Photographs and other Graphic Materials

Level of Description:
Item from Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1947

Location: Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: 301-837-3530, FAX: 301-837-3621, EMAIL: stillpix@nara.gov

Production Date: 11/25/1942

Part of: Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945

Access Restrictions:
Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Variant Control Number(s):
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-210-G-D659

Copy 1
Copy Status: Preservation
Storage Facility: National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD)
Media
Media Type: Negative

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Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Materials
Stewart, Francis, Photographer

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