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Title
Wada Family, Block 14-9-A in Poston
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-1945
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 photograph of a barracks building in the Poston camp, Arizona, where the Wada family was incarcerated during the war. The caption in the accompanied file reads: Wada Family home in Poston, AZ 14 9A 1942-1945. The item was digitized by the donor and the image file was donated.
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
Photographs
image file, JPG, 0.914 MB, 667 x 1000 pixels
image/jpeg
Identifier
wad_03_07_019
csudh_wad_0425
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37455
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Housing--Barracks
Place
Parker, Arizona
Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
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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