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Description
A letter from Shohachi Wada in Taichi-cho, Wakayama, Japan to Kan Wada. He gives Kan updates on his life: He was appointed to be a principal at Taiji Middle School since April 1. His daughter, Shoko, got married to a son of the owner of Yasudomi Photo Studio. The wedding photo is enclosed, which is found in item: csudh_wad_0324. He has not had enough time to create a paining but will make it during the summer and ship it to Kan. He researched the price of stone graves for the Wada family and enclosed the list of the prices in the letter. 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
Correspondence 2 pages, 8.5 x 6 inches, handwritten application/pdf
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