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oh wow, this is really cool.

A newspaper story about her appeared in the Lebanon (PA) Daily News, Oct 13, 1958: [photo] Joins Staff Dr. Ruby S. Hirose has recently been transferred to the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital as a bacteriologist. Before coming here, she was affiliated with the Ft. Benjamin Harrison Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind., and the VA Hospital at Dayton, Ohio. Born in Kent, WAsh., Dr. Hirose received her college education at the University of Washington, Seattle, and did graduate work at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1932. She first worked in the Biological Division of the William S. Merrill Company in Cincinnati. During the war she was connected with the Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology, University of Cincinnati, a consulting laboratory doing toxicological work. She also taught at the University of Indiana Medical School as an instructor in microbiology and doing research on cancer using antimetabolites. Dr. Hirose is living on the hospital grounds here. Only two years later, her obituary was published in the Lebanon (PA) Daily News, Oct 8, 1960: Dr Ruby Hirose, VA Hospital Chemist, Dies Dr Ruby S Hirose, 54, 1009 S. Kiner St, died on Friday afternoon in the Reading Hospital. She was a member of the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital staff. Dr Hirose, who previously lived in Dayton, O., was born in Kent, Wash. She held a doctorate in chemistry. Her parents were the late Shiusaku and Tome (Kurai) Hirose. Surviving are two sisters, Mary T. Hirose, Chicago, and Toki, wife of Dr. Isaac Jawasaki, Honolulu; and a brother, Kimeo Hirose, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Thank you for such detailed information, Brenda! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

Share Hirose's legacy with the wonderful women in your life by sending a free ecard featuring her from the Smithsonian Institution Archives: blog.photography.si.edu/2011/03/16/ecards-womens-history-... Catherine Shteynberg Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Yes, please rotate the image! It's hard to read as it is now. (Japanese is written top to bottom, starting on the right side of the paper.)

Thanks for the comments! I've rotated the image, hopefully its easier to read now! Mary U.S. National Archives

Thank you!

Thanks so much for sharing this photo. Our treatment of Japanese-Americans at this point in time was shameful. Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it.

I am really bothered by the the heading, "war emergency evacuation," as if Japanese Americans were rounded up and shipped off to the camps for their "own good." It shows that the U.S. government can say or do anything and justify it as a "war emergency."

They're preserving the titles of the photos as they were titled when they were taken. It's the Library of Congress historically documenting (and sharing with us) pieces of history. While that time period, and the subject matter is certainly sad and distasteful, I think it would be terrible if the LOC cleaned up the titles and other information to appeal to our modern sensibilities. It's much more important to get an accurate representation of history, imho. But I certainly understand where you're coming from- it was a terrible situation for the government to even conceive of internment camps, let alone put them into practice.

I agree with Jade. I appreciate the photo more because it has the original caption.

I agree with JadeEJF too. Doesn't change the fact that this is a shameful event in our history. -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)