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Title
Letter from War Department to Tomoji Wada, September 21, 1918
Creator
United States. War Department
Date Created and/or Issued
1918-09-21
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 letter from Local Board for Division No. 3, City of Los Angeles, State of California Branch City Hall San Pedro Cal. to "E. T. Wada," that is, Tomoji Wada. It seeks assistance from Tomoji Wada to have the Japanese residents to register for enlistment. He created a questionnaire form for Japanese immigrants. The questionnaire form is found in item: csudh_wad_0051. The work remuneration is listed in the tax form, which is found in csudh_wad_0113.
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
Correspondence
1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
wad_02_20_001
csudh_wad_0391
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37407
Language
English
Subject
Military service--Pre-World War II service
Identity and values--Issei
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Place
Los Angeles, California
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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