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Title
Letter of recommendation from W. J. Lauritzen, Assoc. Construction Supt. at Tule Lake Project for Mr. Lawrence Asoo, September 10, 1943
Creator
Lauritzen, W.J.: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-09-10
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Letter from W. J. Lauritzen, Associate Construction Superintendent at Tule Lake to Whom It May Concern introducing Mr. Lawrence Asoo and praising his work as a landscape gardener foreman at Tule Lake in the Maintenance Unit.
Bunzo Asoo was born in 1897 in Hiroshima, Japan. Haruye Asoo was born in 1982 in Okinawa, Japan. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1914 and helped his father on a farm in Vorden, California. In 1915, Bunzo went to an English language school in San Francisco. In 1920, he returned to Japan for an arranged marriage with Haruye. They had seven children. They farmed in the Sacramento area during the 1920s and 30. In May 1942, the family was forced to evacuate to Arboga Assembly Center, then to Tule Lake and Topaz Relocation Centers. The Asoo's returned to Sacramento in 1945, where Bunzo became a landscape gardener.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript; 1 envelope, 4.25 x 9.5 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_fugi_0025
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/58181
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs
Industry and employment--Gardening
Identity and values--Issei
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Asoo and Fujiwara Families Collection

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