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Description
A scrapbook containing clippings from Japanese newspapers and magazines mainly on the Japanese American community published in 1908-1924, 1941-1942, and 1948. Topics include the community population and demographics, crimes, immigration and naturalization, enlistment, taxation, fishery, Nihonjinkai, living costs, the Immigration Act of 1924, and World War II. Compiled by Tomoji Wada. Also includes a clipping from an English publication about the election results in 1908 and 1916. 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
Scrapbooks 1 volume, 9.25 x 6.5 inches application/pdf
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