Letter from Earl L. Kelley, District Relocation Officer, War Relocation Authority, United States Department of the Interior, to Tomoji Wada, January 11, 1946
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Description
An original and carbon copy of a letter from Earl L. Kelley, District Relocation Officer, War Relocation Authority, United States Department of the Interior, to Tomoji Wada. This is a reply letter to Tomoji Wada's letter requesting a furniture grant for his 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.
World War II--Economic losses Identity and values--Issei Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
Place
Los Angeles, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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