Insurance

A postcard advertisement selling "war damage insurance" covered by the US government reinsurance program. It was sent to Helen Thomas in Lawndale, California from the Thos. H. Fillmore Insurance Agency in Inglewood, California. It also includes numerical marginalia on the front. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nis_04_001

Photograph number 1279 of a two story building, possibly a hotel, on Terminal Island. An insurance real state office and possibly Phillips Furniture Co. [Company] are pictured in front of the two story building. The sign in the street reads: East San Pedro Tract 214B. Negative scan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …

Oral history interview with Toshimi Tom Shimasaki. Information on the oral history project is found in: csuf_stp_0012A; Glossary in: csuf_stp_0014. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: FCPL Shimasaki, Tom Toshimi

Seiso Bitow and his insurance company colleagues pose for a photograph. Seiso is standing on the front row, third from the right.

Business card for F. Murakami in English and Japanese.

The yearbook includes pictures and information about Japanese American businesses, schools, organizations, individuals, and families. The directory includes city indexes for California, as well as a few city indexes for Arizona and Japan, with advertisements for businesses and organizations throughout the city indexes.

Selected article titles: "Nisei Writer Wows Critics" (p. 4), "High, Wide & Handsome" (p. 6), "Mr. Jazz" (p. 9), Community Minded (p. 10), New Deal Insurance (p. 12), Star Is Born (p. 14).