Agriculture

Many Issei (first-generation Japanese immigrants) began as sharecroppers. Others sought to buy land, but the Issei had to overcome obstacles preventing them from competing with white farmers. California and other states passed alien land laws prohibiting Asian immigrants from purchasing or leasing agricultural land. There were ways around the discriminatory laws: an Issei father could put the property in the name of his American-born child, or issei could form corporations in which a majority of the shareholders were American citizens. Despite the alien land laws, Issei farmers played a significant role in West Coast agriculture. In the years just prior to World War II, Japanese American families grew 35 percent of the produce in California. By the 1920s, Japanese Americans supplied 75 percent of the produce and half the milk to the Puget Sound region.

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img Men and women harvesting crops (ddr-fom-1-18)

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img Women harvesting crops (ddr-fom-1-11)

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img Agriculture fields (ddr-fom-1-812)

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img View of a wheat farm (ddr-fom-1-893)

WRA caption on reverse: "A view of a wheat farm a few miles south of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese descent."

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img Digging at Minidoka (ddr-fom-1-39)

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img Tractors working agricultural fields (ddr-fom-1-774)

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img View of agricultural fields (ddr-fom-1-3)

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img View of muddy agricultural fields (ddr-fom-1-10)

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img Harvesting with a tractor (ddr-fom-1-44)

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img Farmers working in the fields (ddr-fom-1-779)

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img Man working a tractor in a field (ddr-fom-1-26)

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img Arrivals (ddr-hmwf-1-199)

"Hanako request, June 20 1044, Denson Arkansas arrivals (June 15)" as described on back

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img A sow and her piglets (ddr-fom-1-41)

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img Women harvesting potatoes (ddr-fom-1-46)

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img Students prepping agricultural fields (ddr-fom-1-727)

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img Men and women harvesting onions (ddr-fom-1-42)

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img Man tending crops in a field (ddr-fom-1-14)

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img View of agricultural fields (ddr-fom-1-785)

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img Tractors working agricultural fields (ddr-fom-1-789)

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img Farmers working in the fields (ddr-fom-1-30)

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img Tractors working agricultural fields (ddr-fom-1-777)

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img Farmers working in the fields (ddr-fom-1-780)

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img Arrivals (ddr-hmwf-1-200)

"Hanako request, June 20 1044, Denson Arkansas arrivals (June 15)" as described on back

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img Doctored image of crowd interspersed with giant vegetables (ddr-densho-255-117)

Doctored image of a crowd watching a parade float interspersed with giant vegetables. The image is doctored so a man appears to be sitting on a giant onion watching the orator. On reverse: "Post Card."

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img Laborers on mounds of hay (ddr-densho-255-137)

Laborers standing on and around mounds of hay, with a pipe being channeled into the hay.

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