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Description
A list of Tomoji Wada's business expenses for income tax return year of 1920. The list includes office expenses, contribution, membership fees, salaries of his employees, traveling expenses, and license fee. His income includes interpreter salaries and wages from White Star Canning Co. He worked for the company as an interpreter and also operated his own interpreter office. 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
Ledgers 1 page, 13 x 8.5 inches, typescript application/pdf
Identity and values--Issei Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island Industry and employment--Small business Industry and employment--Fishing and canneries
Place
Terminal Island, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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