Portrait of a Japanese American woman

Portrait of a Japanese American woman

Japanese American women
Agricultural laborers
Women
Japanese Americans

Japanese American field worker, Ontario, Oregon. In May 1942, Malheur County became one of the first areas to recruit Japanese- American evacuees for farm work. Some of the evacuees remained in Eastern Oregon after the order excluding them from the West Coast was lifted in January 1945.

Extension and Experiment Station Communications

1946-05-00

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Negatives

English

Image

Ontario, Oregon
Malheur County, Oregon