Japanese American soldiers - 1
Title |
Japanese American soldiers - 1 |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Date created |
circa 1942-1945 |
Description |
Army sergeant fingerprints Chris Ishii who volunteered for the United States Army in December 1942, before Japanese Americans were included in the Selective Service. Chris was a cartoonist for Disney studios prior to being evacuated. Chris created a cartoon character names "Lil Nerbo" or little Nisei boy. The cartoon strip he created quickly became a favorite with evacuees. When Chris left Amache, the comic strip was continued by Tom Okamoto, another Disney animator, and later by Jack Ito. |
Type of object |
Image |
Physical description |
1 photograph : b & w ; 20.3 x 27.9 cm |
Institution |
Sonoma State University Library Rohnert Park, California |
Subject (Place) |
Amache (Colo.) |
Subject (Name) |
Amache Relocation Camp Granada Relocation Center Ishii, Chris Okamoto, Tom Ito, Jack |
Subject (Topic) |
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 Japanese American soldiers Caricatures and cartoons |
Copyright statement |
Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/ |
Identifier |
am3_0033 |
Original source |
Fuchigami, Robert Y. |
Source collection |
North Bay Ethnic Archive |
Digital collection |
Camp Amache Digital Collection |
Related resoures |
http://iii.sonoma.edu/record=b1445694 |
Related links |
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/wwcod/granada.htm ; http://www.amache.org/ |
Object form |
Photograph |
Digital reproduction |
Original photograph scanned as a tiff at 400 dpi and 6000 ppi on the long side--Display jpeg set at 400 dpi and 1024 ppi on the long side |
Date digitized |
2011 |
Language |
eng |
Country of creation |
U.S. |
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