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Description
A list of Tomoji Wada's business expenses and income in 1922. It was attached to the "Individual income tax return for net incomes of not more than $5,000 for calendar year 1922, Form 1040A," which is found in item: csudh_wad_0095. He worked for White Star Canning Co. as an interpreter and Seacoast Packing Co. as a bookkeeper. 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 pages, 13 x 8.5 inches, typescript application/pdf
Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island Identity and values--Issei 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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