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Title
Promissory note
Creator
Wada, Tomoji, 1882-1974: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1926-01-04
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
A draft of a promissory note documenting that Fusao Fujimoto of Los Angeles promises to pay 100 dollars to "T. E. Wada," that is, Tomoji Wada of Terminal Island.
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
1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript and handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
wad_02_23_003
csudh_wad_0385
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37379
Language
English
Subject
Identity and values--Issei
Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island
Place
Terminal Island, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84q8253/
Tomoji Wada Family Papers

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