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[Parade or procession on field, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945]

Muramoto, Walter [ bio ]

[Parade or procession on field, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945]

photograph
H: 2 in, W: 2.625 in

Rohwer, Ark., 1942-1945

(97.292.14F)

Gift of the Walter Muramoto Family

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1 photographic print : b&w

Parade or procession on a field outdoors with crowd of spectators watching in background at Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1942-1945. A man pulls a two-wheeled cart at head of procession at left and is followed by men, possibly in military uniforms and blackface (?) pulling a larger cart with a costumed figure resembling Abraham Lincoln. Pennants and flags bearing the numbers ,"3" and "33", fly above crowd at TL. Procession extends from left into distance at right.

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