Text / Receipt from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co
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- Title
- Receipt from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co
- Creator
- Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1920-05-19
- Contributing Institution
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California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
- Collection
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CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
- Rights Information
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- Description
- A receipt for the payment from "Wada, T. E.," that is, Tomoji Wada for the exchange service. Issued by Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. The payment (canceled check) made by Tomoji Wada is found in item: csudh_wad_0124.
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.
- Type
- text
- Format
- Ephemera
1 sheet, 3.75 x 4 inches
application/pdf
- Identifier
- wad_01_19_006
csudh_wad_0123
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37055
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Identity and values--Issei
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Industry and employment--Small business
- Source
- CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
- Relation
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California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84q8253/
Tomoji Wada Family Papers
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