Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1632-1641
Description: .BW prints; .1632: Silhouetted by the skyline, an American soldier in uniform stands with a ragged line of seven Japanese children wearing shorts and dark school uniform coats; 2.875 x 3.75"; .1633: Silhouetted by the skyline, an American officer in uniform stands with a ragged line of nine Japanese children wearing shorts and dark school uniform coats; 3.875 x 5.875"; .1634: Ten small boys on bicycles fitted with training wheels race across a playground; benches, playground equipment, and picket fence in background; 4.5 x 6.25"; .1635: Children kneel on ground, heads bowed, on grassy lawn in front of hedge; 3.375 x 5.375"; .1636: Boys and girls in dark school uniforms sit in a semicircle with heads bowed and hands clasped in front of them, with large books on their laps; captioned "We pray"; 2 x 6"; .1637: Six young children sit on a grassy lawn in the sun, touching a German Shepherd laying among them; 2.75 x 4"; .1638: Children sit on wall or on grass in front of the wall in front of an open garage; a woman is handing out something to them, and the children are putting it in their mouths and enjoying it; a car's headlights can be seen from the open garage; 2.125 x 3.875"; .1639: Children sit in wide circle on a large plain dotted with low conical trees; a lone adult stands at right; there appear to be rows of Quanset Huts in the far background; 2.625 x 4.25"; .1640: Six children on a wooden see-saw; 1.625 x 2.25"; .1641: A man in a striped suit, Ikuta Imamura, gently reaches from behind to guide the hands of a boy, Noboru Hagiwara, with close-cropped hair and a white t-shirt, to write braille on a desk slate; 3.125 x 2.5".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: ca. 1950
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Automobiles Bible study Bicycles & tricycles Braille Braillewriters Candy Dogs Garages Japan Playgrounds Prayer Schools for the blind and visually impaired Soldiers
