hayward

Why "Hayword the Skipper"? His name obviously was Hayward.

Highly decorated and a Vice Admiral as well. Has his wings too. A hero!

This is Vice Admiral John T. "Chick" Hayward. He was a WWII Aviator and a participant in Project Camel of the Manhattan Project where he worked on non-nuclear components of the Fat Man bomb and it's drop testing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Hayward

"Charlotte Oelschlägel, aka Charlotte Hayward (August 14, 1898 in Berlin - November 14, 1984 in Berlin) was a German professional skater. For most of her life, she used only her first name as her stage name. She invented the death spiral and the charlotte spiral, named after her." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Oelschlagel Another photos of her is in The Day book., February 17, 1917, LAST EDITION, Image 27. She appeared in the ice show Hip-Hip-Hooray! at the New York Hippodrome. See also The Day book., January 16, 1917, LAST EDITION, Image 13.

The sheet music in the photo leads to a hit musical extravaganza, "Hip Hip Hooray" which played at New York's 5,200 seat Hippodrome Theatre between 9/30/15 and 6/3/16. A performer named only Charlotte (Oelschlägel) is depicted ice skating on the cover, and mention of her skating is made in this New York Times article from May 2, 1916. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D17F93D5F13738... The story of 17 year old Charlotte's rise to stardom in the production, as well as photos of the ice-skating extravaganza in Hip Hip Hooray is told and illustrated (in part by a full color reproduction of the sheet music in this picture) on a page devoted to her at icestagearchive.com. www.icestagearchive.com/images/scan0004.jpg www.icestagearchive.com/charlotte.html A 1926 biographical sketch select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10716F73E5D1373... More detailed biographical sketch from the 1990's: www.iceskatingintnl.com/SkatingScene/SScHistoricalIcons.htm

Thanks for finding the beautifully illustrated page on the career of this skater artolog. We' ll some of the information to the record the next time we update.

From Matt O'Brien, "Photos of Dark Historical Event Emerge," Oakland Tribune (16 November 2006), online here:
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"I don't even remember the picture being taken," said Satsuki Ward, who was barely 10 years old when she and her family members were uprooted from their East Bay home in May 1942. "It was utter chaos."

Ward, now a 76-year-old Fairfield resident, found out about Lange and her photographs of Japanese-American internment much later. The portrait of the Mochida family wearing identification tags around their necks made the pages of Newsweek magazine and other outlets, and helped expose a dark moment in American history.
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Miyuki Hirano of Sparks, Nev., another one of the surviving Mochida siblings, remembers seeing her face on that book's cover.

But while they occasionally see reminders of their youth in print, it took many years for Mochida family members to be able to talk frankly about what happened to them, said Kayoko Ikuma, 69, of San Mateo, who was 4 when Lange took her photo.

Ikuma said witnessing the treatment of America's Muslim population has made her try to share her experience more.

Their parents avoided discussing the internment after the war. Their father, who had owned a successful flower-growing business in unincorporated Alameda County, returned from the camps unhappy, spent the rest of his life in domestic labor and took to drinking.

The Lange photographs, and the Mochida children's more vivid memories of years spent in the Utah camp, is all they have left from that time.

Pennylrichardsca, thanks for letting us know about this fascinating article about the Mochida family. This is definitely one of those haunting photographs of children where you wonder whatever happened to them. It's a sad story.

You might be interested in checking out nearly 4,000 photographs taken by the War Relocation Authority of the Japanese American Internment during World War II that are available in our online catalog. We have a webpage that allows you to click on links for search topics within this group of photos:
www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/japanese-americans/

We hope to get those photos on Flickr at some point, too.

Thank you for sharing these incredibly powerful photographs.

Very moving...

You are welcome! This has been one of the more talked about photographs we've shared on the U.S. National Archives photostream. We recommend that you investigate earlier posts for the image which lead to more information about the young girls in the photograph.

Jerry (U.S. National Archives)