Industry and employment

At the turn of the century, Japanese immigrants (Issei) came to the United States to work on the rapidly expanding plantations of Hawaii and the farms, lumber mills, railroads and canneries of the Pacific Coast. They quickly realized this type of work was not going to bring them wealth, and many began looking for more promising opportunities. Farming, fishing and small businesses were often seen as the answer.

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img Anderson Dam (1944) (ddr-densho-258-61)

Overview of the damsite. Caption below: "The Dam at August 1944."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-258-61/

img Tunnel (ddr-densho-258-62)

View into a tunnel. Caption below: "The Tunnel."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-258-62/

img Construction workers (ddr-densho-258-56)

Men working at the damsite. Caption on right: "Tamping along the walls."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-258-56/

img Construction workers (ddr-densho-258-54)

Men working on construction site. Caption below: "Rock Drillers at work."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-258-54/

img Construction site (ddr-densho-258-48)

Conveyor used in constructing the dam. Caption on right: "The Muck rolling in the Dam."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-258-48/

img Construction on Anderson Dam (ddr-densho-258-38)

Wide shot of a construction site with cranes, retaining walls, trucks, scaffolding, and workers. Caption on right: "First stage of Dam 1942. Anderson Dam Idaho. Earth filled dam."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-258-38/

img Portrait (ddr-jamsj-1-268)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-268/

img Myer Ichida 1959 San Jose Gardener's Club (ddr-jamsj-1-218)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-218/

img Convention Committee (ddr-jamsj-1-372)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-372/

img Almost Missed This Shot (ddr-jamsj-1-62)

Working on a landscape project

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-62/

img Kay Kawasakis' Plumbing Crew (ddr-jamsj-1-13)

Landscapers working in front of the Sumitomo Bank of California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-13/

img Portrait (ddr-jamsj-1-273)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-273/

img Portrait (ddr-jamsj-1-275)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-275/

img Leveling soil (ddr-jamsj-1-609)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-609/

img SJLGA working on a project (ddr-jamsj-1-615)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-615/

img Leveling soil (ddr-jamsj-1-617)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-617/

img Myer Ichida (ddr-jamsj-1-219)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-1-219/

img Men, women, and children posed on staircase. (ddr-densho-255-181)

Men, women, and children posed on a staircase in the snow. Caption on reverse in Japanese.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-181/

img Class at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-92)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another posed group photo of what I will guess was [Shidzuyo Yasui's] class in Home Economics. I don't know where in Japan this was taken, but it doesn't look like the Sumoto School grounds." Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-92/

img Teachers at Sumoto School in Japan (ddr-densho-259-90)

A group picture from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan. Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the top row, fourth from the right.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-90/

img Hotel kitchen with Issei employees (ddr-densho-259-360)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Interior of a large commercial kitchen, showing three Issei kitchen employees On the white crock immediately to the right of the young man in a black tie and a white apron, it appears to say: Hotel Oregon Hood River Oregon 1914. There was a Hotel Oregon in Hood River once. It was …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-360/

img Japanese teachers on Awaji Island (ddr-densho-259-124)

Shidzuyo Yasui (second row, second from right) with colleagues from the Sumoto School on Awaji Island, Japan. The bearded man in the back row is the school principal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-124/