A chance discovery of a box of photos in a Yuba County storage locker is giving people a unique insight into their community after local historians took it upon themselves to document an important moment in time.
The photos are portraits of nearly 100 Japanese Americans who lived in the Marysville/Yuba City area more than 80 years ago. Most of the photos show a very stoic individual looking directly into the lens of the camera. "It was assumed it was for ID, because there were so many taken in the same time frame," said David Read, Executive Director of."We believe that they believed they were required to have an ID as part of the internment camp experience.
"You would have loved to sit down and talk to these folks about their experiences. Many or most were American citizens adding to the tragedy of what happened," said Read. When Clyde looked out the window, he saw a line of local Japanese Americans from the front of his studio out to the street. "And the man told him, 'Don't you know? No one else would take or picture or treat us decently. You also only charged us the same as anyone else. You did all those things, you were friendly, you were nice,'" said Bush."He realized; he did something good by just being [himself]."The original 35mm rolls of film sat in boxes for nearly 70 years until Myrtle Bush, Clyde's wife, reached out to the Sue Cenjer-Moyers, the unofficial historian of Marysville.
"We worked for weeks, curating the collection, getting the enlargements, and hanging them on the wall in Marysville. I still get emotional just thinking about them and seeing their faces and the uncertainty and everything else they must have experienced," said Read."Most folks I talked to may have known about the internment experience, but they had no idea local residents were being taken and warehoused literally right here in south Yuba County.
The site is described as an"Interpretive Center that serves as a reminder of the impact the incarceration experience has had on families, on communities, and the country. It is an opportunity to educate others on the fragility of civil liberties in times of crisis, and the importance of remaining vigilant in protecting the rights and freedoms of all."
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