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Title
Masanosuke and Tomoe Amahata
Creator
Hiramura Shashinkan
Date Created and/or Issued
1950-06-15
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 portrait of Masanosuke and Tomoe Amahata taken by Hiramura Shashinkan, a photo studio in Kobe, Japan. The translation of the caption on the back side: Masanosuke Amahata at age 61, Tomoe at age 52, photographed on June 15, 1950.
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
image
Format
Portraits; Photographs
black and white, 6 x 4.25 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
wad_01_04_002
csudh_wad_0309
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37032
Language
Japanese
Subject
Japan--Post-World War II
Place
Kobe-shi, Japan
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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