A portrait of the Honda family. Includes Sam Seiichi, Mary, Amy Emiko, Kenneth Seizo Honda, and David Paul and Diane Keiko Reiland. Taken at Toyo Miyatake Studio. The caption in the accompanied file reads: Honda Family 19; 1st row: Sam Seiichi, Mary; 2nd row: Amy Emiko, Kenneth Seizo, David Paul Reiland, Diane Keiko (Honda) Reiland. The item was digitized by the donor and the image file was donated. Tomoji Wada was an interpreter, bookkeeper, operator of a grocery store, and manufacturer of tofu and mochi on Terminal Island, California prior to World War II. He established a tofu manufacturing plant at the Poston camp in Arizona during the war, and became a gardener after returning from the incarceration camp to Los Angeles, California. The collection consists of receipts, ledgers, taxes, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, journals, guidebooks, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Materials include born-digital objects created and transferred from the donor.
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