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Description
A notice and receipt from H. L. Byram, County Tax Collector, to "Wada, T. E." that is, Tomoji Wada. It records the total valuation (the tax and added penalty) and the date of the payment received. It was mailed to Tomoji Wada's Terminal Island address initially and forwarded to the Poston camp where he had been incarcerated. 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
Memorandum; Ephemera 1 sheet, 7 x 6.5 inches; 1 envelope, 3.75 x 6.75 inches application/pdf
World War II--Economic losses Identity and values--Issei Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island Industry and employment--Small business--Grocery stores
Place
Los Angeles, California Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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