Hisako Hibi
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Hisako Shimizu Hibi was a Japanese-born American Issei painter and printmaker. Hibi attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, where she garnered experience and recognit
Hisako Shimizu in 1942
Hisako Hibi awaits evacuation with her son, Satoshi, and daughter, Ibuki, in Hayward, California on 8 May 1942, by Dorothea Lange for the WRA
Topaz War Relocation Center
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The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center and briefly as the Abraham Relocation Center, was an American concentration camp in which Americans of Japanese descen
Hisako Hibi
…Ibuki Hibi. Well-known for the large collection of paintings she created during her internment (1942-1946) at the American internment camps Tanforan and Topaz, Hibi assisted in founding and teaching art schools for interned children. Her work adds to a small collection of images from within the internment…
Looking down a main thoroughfare at Topaz (October 18, 1942)
Hog farm where internees raised pork for the camp's kitchen
Internees clear land for agricultural use.
James Hatsuaki Wakasa and his dog in an undated photograph. A 63-year-old chef from San Francisco, Wakasa was shot and killed by a military sentry while walking his dog inside the barbed-wire fence.