Jim and Eunice Kurisu's Wedding Photo in Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
date: label: date made
content: 1944
label: date made
content: 04/20/1944
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is Jim and Eunice Kurisu's wedding photograph, which was taken at the Jerome, Arkansas prison camp.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Setsugo "Jim" Kurisu was born to Japanese immigrants on November 13, 1920 in Reedley, California. Jim had seven brothers and sisters. The Kurisu family settled in Fresno, California, and were farmers.
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content: Eunice Kurisu (nee Yokota) was born to Japanese immigrants on August 10, 1945 in California.
label: Description (Brief)
content: After Executive Order 9066 was issued, the Kurisu family was forcibly relocated to the Fresno Assembly Center before being transferred to the Jerome, Arkansas prison camp in September of 1942.
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content: Eunice and her family were forcibly relocated to the Santa Anita Assembly Center before being transferred to the Jerome, Arkansas prison camp. Eunice received permission to leave Jerome to work in Chicago as a nanny.
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content: Jim also received permission to leave Jerome for work and went to Chicago to work in a nylon factory. It was there that he met Eunice. Jim's sister knew Eunice, set up their meeting in Chicago, and the rest was history.
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content: Jim and Eunice were married a few months later on April 20, 1944, just outside the Jerome, Arkansas prison camp.
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content: Jim was drafted into the U.S. Army on December 11, 1944, and Eunice moved to the Rohwer, Arkansas prison camp to be with her family. Jim was sent to Germany and became a sharpshooter and a truck driver in his service overseas before being honorably discharged on July 9th, 1946.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Upon Eunice and her baby Joyce's release from the Rohwer prison camp, they were photographed in Sacramento during their travel back home. This photograph of Eunice and Joyce surrounded by military men went nationwide on newspaper covers.
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label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Arkansas, Jerome
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 Eunice B. Kurisu
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3154.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3154
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3154.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 4 in; 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm