Girl's Pink Crocheted Dress
date: label: date made
content: 1944
notes: label: Description
content: This small dress was hand crocheted for Lois Akiko Sakahara. She was a little girl when she was in the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center. There were many children and small toddlers in the various camps, whether they were born in camp, or brought in very young, they stayed with their parents in the concentration camps. Lois' mother, Pauline Hatsuye Sakahara made it while she and her daughter were incarcerated. Sewing classes were often taught in War Relocation Centers. This turned out to be a crucial skill to learn while in camp because the Japanese Americans were impoverished in their imprisonment. Making and mending clothes was a common and very important skill to learn while living in the incarceration camps. Japanese Americans were forced to make many things such as clothes to try to make their lives as normal as possible.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wyoming, Heart Mountain
topic: label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lois Mills
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0104.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0104
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0104.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 18 in x 1/4 in; 46.99 cm x 45.72 cm x .635 cm