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An envelope from H. L. Bryram, County Tax Collector, Los Angeles, California. Tomoji Wada saved the envelope to keep Bryam's address. The enveloped was stamped: Los Angeles, California, October 16, 1942, Terminal Island, California on October 23, 1942, and Bakersfield, California on October 24, 27. Tomoji E. Wada recorded his address in the Poston camp and the date when he mailed the letter to the county tax collector. The letter is found in item: csudh_wad_0186. 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
Memorandum 1 envelope, 4 x 9 inches application/pdf
World War II--Economic losses Identity and values--Issei Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island Industry and employment--Small business--Grocery stores
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