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Form 1040A to file an annual income tax return. Filed by Tomoji Wada. He worked for White Star Canning Co. as an interpreter and also operated his own interpreter office on Terminal Island, California. 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
Financial documents 4 pages, 10.5 x 8 inches 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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