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Title
Letter from Kazuo and Yoshie Mori to Kan Wada, December 21
Creator
Mori, Kazuo: author
Mori, Yoshie: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1969-12-21
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
Letter from Kazuo and Yoshie Mori who are Tomoji Wada's nephew and his wife residing in Seattle, Washington. They own a store in Seattle and talk about the burglary at their store. The first page of the letter is missing. A photograph was enclosed with this letter, which is found in item: csudh_wad_0322.
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, 6 x 9 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
wad_01_31_008
csudh_wad_0252
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37248
Language
Japanese
Subject
Geographic communities--Washington--Seattle
Industry and employment--Small business--Grocery stores
Place
Seattle, Washington
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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