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Description
A photograph of a farming land and houses in Clarksburg in Yolo County, California. Includes Yetsuko Kiyomi's parents' house, "Sakai's home," and houses for their seasonal Philippine workers. Her parents, the Sakais, leased 200 acres of land from a seed company and grow asparagus, carrots, and onions to produce seeds. The handwritten notes on the backside reads: Yolo County California, Clarksburg, C.C. Mors Camp No. 5, Mail box RFD 263, Sakai home, Holland no. 5. This photograph is found on page 1 of "Yetsuko Kiyomi photo album" (csudh_yet_0001). Contains a family photo album compiled by Yetsuko Kiyomi, who is a Kibei Nisei born to Japanese immigrant parents, Misaburo and Sayo Sakai, and raised in the Japanese farming community in the town of Holland, Clarksburg, Yolo County, California. She returned to Kumamoto, Japan where she was educated and resided from pre-war through post-war, and sailed back to the U.S. and married to Genjiro Kiyomi in 1957. The included photographs depict her life in two countries, the U.S. and Japan. Additional materials in the collection include: a group photograph of her 6th grade Mifune Elementary School, her mother's side family trees, and her husband's biographical information.
Type
image
Format
Photographs; Albums black and white; handwritten image/jpeg
Industry and employment--Agriculture--Farming Geographic communities--California Identity and values--Issei Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Kibei
Place
Clarksburg, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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