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img Susumu Tomine sitting on lawn (ddr-ajah-6-941)

Caption below photo; Susumu Tomine of Alameda, CA. Circa early 1940s, before WWII.

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img Susumu Tomine playing guitar with a band (ddr-ajah-6-955)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine (second from right) play guitar at a club.

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img Portrait of Tomoe and Susumu Tomine (ddr-ajah-6-953)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Tomine and husband Susumu, of Alameda, CA. Circa early 1950s

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img Portrait of Tomoe and Susumu Tomine by Christmas tree (ddr-ajah-6-950)

Caption below photo: Tomoe and Susumu Tomine celebrate Christmas in Alameda, CA, circa 1950s.

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img Tomoe and Susumu Tomine sitting on car bumper (ddr-ajah-6-954)

Caption below photo: Tomoe and Susumu Tomine sit on the bumper of a Chevrolet, 1951

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img Susumu Tomine with guitar (ddr-ajah-6-940)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine learned to play the guitar while in a sanitarium for tuberculosis before WWII. He was from Alameda, CA. He played mostly Japanese songs. Circa early 1940s

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img Susumu Tomine with guitar (ddr-ajah-6-944)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine learned to play the guitar while in a sanitarium for tuberculosis before WWII. He played mostly Japanese songs. He was from Alameda, CA. July 24, 1942

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img Susumu Tomine making mochi (ddr-ajah-6-949)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine (left) pounds rice during Mochitsuki in Alameda, CA. Circa early 1950s.

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doc Graduation Diploma and cosmetology certification for Tomoe Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-925)

Caption on right: Tomoe Otsu's cosmetology degrees. Caption includes biographical information about Tomoe (Otsu) and Susumu Tomine

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img Family portrait of Tomoe and Susumu Tomine (ddr-ajah-6-948)

Caption below photo: L to R: Tomoe Tomine, Yoshino Otsu (Tomoe's mother), Shinya "Chris" Tomine and Susumu Tomine. Shinya is Tomoe and Susumu's son. The Tomines were still incarcerated in Tule Lake, CA for this photo. Tomoe was from Alameda, CA., and the family would settle there after the war ended. July 1945 photo

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img Group sitting at a table at San Francisco YMCA (ddr-ajah-6-939)

Caption below photo: San Francisco YMCA, where Susumu Tomine (far left) went for English lessons, circa 1939-1940. He was a kibei, born in America but educated in Japan. Her returned when he was 18 years old to live in Alameda, CA.

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img Large group portrait of Mess hall staff (ddr-ajah-6-947)

Caption below photo: Mess 58 crew. Tule Lake Center, Summer 1945

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img Tomoe Tomine sitting on beach (ddr-ajah-6-942)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Tomine addressed this photo to the man who would soon become her husband, Susumu in 1941. Given her clothing, likely in the summer, not long before Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Imperial Japanese. Inscription on photo: My Darling Susumu, [?]M to love, Tomo 1941

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img Four children by Christmas tree (ddr-ajah-6-952)

Caption below photo: L to R: Eugene, Naomi, Amy, Shinya "Chris" Tomine. They are the children of Susumu and Tomoe, of Alameda, CA. Amy was born April 19, 1949, photo circa 1950.

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doc Marriage license application for Susumu Tomine and Tomoe Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-945)

Caption below photo: Susumu Tomine (of San Francisco, CA) and fianc?e Tomoe Otsu's (of Alameda, CA) application for a license to marry, August 5, 1942. He had contracted Tuberculosis and was living at the Hassler Health Home in Redwood City, CA. Tomoe had already evacuated to the Tanforan Assembly Center. They were hastily married in Tanforan.

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img Wedding portrait of Tomoe Otsu and Susumu Tomine (ddr-ajah-6-943)

Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu marries Susumu Tomine at Tanforan Race track in San Bruno, CA., on September 15, 1942, while waiting to be sent to Topaz, Utah incarceration camp during WWII. This photo, however was shot at Topaz, where they held another ceremony after the arrival there, with a borrowed wedding dress for the photo. …

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img Overview of Topaz camp (ddr-ajah-6-946)

Caption on photo front: Central Utah Reloc. Center Topaz, Utah 1944. Inscription on photo back in Japanese.

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img Group performing on stage (ddr-ajah-3-323)

Caption below photo: Entertainment on stage during the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA, circa 1950s

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img Group of men at table with food and drinks (ddr-ajah-3-13)

Caption below photo: A group of Niseis celebrate with food and drink, including bottle of Kist and Nehi sodas, and empty sake cups. These men were known to help at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., but the event and date is unknown. Caption includes names

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img Large group at banquet (ddr-ajah-3-341)

Caption above photo: Dinner to commemorate the Gomonshu's February 7, 1952 visit to the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA. Individuals identified on photo front

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img Duplicate of ddr-ajah-3-241 with individuals identified (ddr-ajah-3-242)

Caption on photo front: Dinner to commemorate the Gomonshu's February 7, 1952 visit to the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA

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