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Title
Certificate of identification, Form AR-AE-23, Kan Wada
Creator
United States. Department of Justice
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-02-04
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
A certificate of identification for Kan Wada including her personal data, photograph, registration number, fingerprint, signature, and, "Notice to holder of this certificate." Form AR-AE-23.
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
Official documents
1 volume, 4.75 x 3.75 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
wad_02_07_002
csudh_wad_0340
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37417
Language
English
Subject
World War II--'Enemy Alien' Classification
Identity and values--Issei
Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island
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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