DescriptionSeabrook Farms, similar to the internment camps, promoted a system of limited self-governance. In both situations, Japanese Americans were encouraged to make decisions regarding how the community was...
DescriptionEllen Nakamura, featured in the center of this photograph. The brick buildings and greenery of Seabrook Farms presented a sharp contrast to the barracks and desert-like conditions of the internment...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Description"Mayor" Fuju Sasaki, Fred Mukoyama and Barney Sasaki (partially hidden) help unload lunch boxes and other supplies for a Day Camp in Avalon, NJ in 1952. (Seabrook Farms)
Description"Mayor" Fuju Sasaki hands an appreciation award to Harold Emerson at CF Seabrook [Charles F. Seabrook] appreciation night, July 11, 1953. (Seabrook Farms)
DescriptionMayor Fuju Saski (facing left) is among employees filing claims for losses resulting during their evacuation to internment camps during Word War II. An act of Congress in 1951 allowed for evacuees to...