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[Young woman and tree trunk, Rohwer, Arkansas, January 24, 1944/5?]

Muramoto, Walter [ bio ]

[Young woman and tree trunk, Rohwer, Arkansas, January 24, 1944/5?]

photograph
H: 3.5 in, W: 2.625 in

Rohwer, Ark., January 29, 1944

(97.292.6BA)

Gift of the Walter Muramoto Family

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Description

1 photographic print : b&w

Full-length portrait of a young woman standing on dirt area in front of barracks holding onto the barren trunk of a tree at Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arkansas, January 24, 1944 or 1945. She wears eyeglasses, a white cardigan over blouse and pleated skirt. A shovel leans by porch steps next to her feet at BL. Barracks porches in background. Same woman in 97.292.6AX.

Inscription
Stamped in black ink on back: JAN 29 194(4/5) [ink mark obscures last digit]

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