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img Nisei woman gardening (ddr-densho-2-62)

Peggie Yorita.

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img Woman on family farm (ddr-densho-2-30)

Peggie Yorita on her family's farm.

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img Woman and daughter in front of car (ddr-densho-2-20)

Peggie Yorita and her daughter, Patsy.

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img Family and friend at the beach (ddr-densho-2-31)

Left to right: Patsy Yorita, Peggie Yorita, and Emily Nishimura holding Jimmie Yorita at Des Moines beach.

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img Woman in front of housing project home (ddr-densho-2-16)

Peggie Yorita at her parents' housing project home.

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img Mother with children on farm (ddr-densho-2-2)

Patsy, Peggie, and Jimmie Yorita on the Nishimura family farm.

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img Woman in a tomato field (ddr-densho-2-21)

Peggie Yorita holds a bucket of tomatoes from her parents' farm.

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img Mother and daughter on family farm (ddr-densho-2-12)

Mother and daughter Patsy and Peggie Yorita on the family farm.

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img Japanese American making jewelry (ddr-densho-2-61)

Peggie Yorita makes jewelry from shells found at the Tule Lake concentration camp. Tule Lake was drained in the early 1900s. The camp was located on the old lake bed, where people found shells for making jewelry to sell to camp personnel. Shells were scarce, and digging became competitive. To beat the rush, some peopel got …

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img Three men at rest (ddr-densho-2-29)

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img Japanese American making shell jewelry (ddr-densho-2-58)

Peggie Yorita making jewelry from shells found within the confines of the Tule Lake concentration camp. Making jewelry was a popular pastime for the Japanese Americans. Tule Lake was drained in the early 1900s. The camp was located on the old lake bed. As a result, shells were available for people to fashion into jewelry for …

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img Japanese Americans in front of canteen (ddr-densho-2-38)

Peggie Yorita and her friend, Fumie Hariguchi, stand in front of Canteen 30.

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img Mother and children (ddr-densho-2-24)

Peggie Yorita stands with her two children, Patsy and Jimmie, on her parents' farm.

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img Two Japanese Americans picking strawberries (ddr-densho-2-26)

Shown here are Peggie Yorita and Sho Nakagawa of the Yamashita Shipping Company in a strawberry field.

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img Camp garden (ddr-densho-2-69)

This garden was designed by Mr. Kogita (first name unknown), second from the left. Peggie Yorita is on the far left.

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img Japanese American in a camp truck (ddr-densho-2-43)

Peggie Yorita sits in a truck used at the Minidoka concentration camp. Peggie Bain believes that the trucks and farming equipment shown in this photo were being readied for sale since the camp was about to close.

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img Family and friends on farm (ddr-densho-2-1)

The Nishimura family and friends on their farm in Seattle, Washington. Left to right: Kumataro Nishimura, Kadju Nishimura, Emily Herold holding Mary Nakashige, Peggie Yorita, Patsy Yorita, Tom Nishimura, Jiro Matsumura, Harry Oki (behind Matsumura), Hanni Nishimura, and Alex Ando.

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img Japanese Americans digging for shells (ddr-densho-2-48)

Left to right: Peggie Yorita, Margaret Frost (wife of one of the camp's teachers), Kumataro Nishimura, and his wife, Kadju, dig and sift for shells at the Tule Lake concentration camp. Kumataro made the sieve by hand from scrap lumber and wire from a door screen. The shells were bleached and used for jewelry-making, which was …

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Collection Bain Collection (ddr-densho-2)

The Bain collection, 1920s-1940s, focuses on the daily and recreational activities of the Nishimura and Yorita families, originally from Seattle, Washington. This collection contains several photographs of farming, fishing, and swimming. The majority of the collection focuses on the incarceration of the two families at Minidoka, Idaho, and Tule Lake, California. Many photographs document their jewelry-making …

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview (ddr-densho-1000-170)

Nisei female. Born March 31, 1909, in Vashon Island, Washington. Raised in Vashon Island and Des Moines, Washington, before being removed with her two children to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California. Later transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and Minidoka, Idaho, before resettling in Chicago, Illinois. Lived and worked in Chicago before eventually returning to …

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img Jewelry made in camp (ddr-densho-2-49)

This corsage pin was made by Peggie Yorita, a Japanese American at the Tule Lake concentration camp. The flowers and leaves are composed of shells found at the camp. Tule Lake was drained in the early 1900s. The camp was located on the old lake bed, where people found shells for making jewelry to sell to …

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