Sumi Returns to Lemon Street

 

Daughter Sumi returns home to Lemon Street. Sumi uses the home as a boarding house for displaced Japanese Americans returning from the concentration camps. To add additional space for boarders, Sumi encloses the upstairs sleeping porch.

 

Photo: Sumi in the Harada House kitchen, circa 1945. Image courtesy of the Museum of Riverside, Riverside, California.