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vh Elsie Uyematsu Osajima Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-451-4)

Parents' prewar store as a community gathering place

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-451-4/

img Cooperatively owned canteen (ddr-csujad-26-130)

Photo of people working and shopping inside a canteen. Goods are seen divided by type. Verso reads "cooperatively owned canteen." From photo album of Robert Billigmeier. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: mei_05_100

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-130/

doc Invoice, correspondence, card and envelope regarding rental of caps and gowns for March 7, 1943 (ddr-csujad-48-52)

Assorted communication for the rental of graduation caps and gowns for the graduating senior class at Manzanar High School between Harry Bentley Wells and Manzanar Cooperative Enterprises, and between the Cap and Gown Company of California and Mr. S. Sugimoto at Manzanar Cooperative Enterprises. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9052. See this object in the California …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-52/

doc Satoshi Kuwamoto interview (ddr-csujad-6-17)

Oral history interview with Satoshi Kuwamoto. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_KUWAMOTO_SATOSHI

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-6-17/

doc Mr. Jiro Omata and Mrs. Tsune Lee (ddr-csujad-8-59)

Oral history interview with Mr. Jiro Omata and Mrs. Tsune Lee. 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 Omata, Mr Jiro and Lee, Mrs Tsune

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-8-59/

doc Akiko Matsui (ddr-csujad-8-37)

Oral history interview with Akiko Matsui. 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 Matsui, Akiko

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-8-37/

doc Tomiko Kuwamoto (ddr-csujad-8-35)

Oral history interview with Tomiko Kuwamoto. 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 Kuwamoto, Tomiko

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-8-35/

img Interior of Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-111)

This market was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-111/

img Shopping at a market (ddr-densho-128-152)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-152/

img Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-22)

This market was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-22/

img Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-102)

This market was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-102/

img Interior of Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-112)

This market was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-112/

img Interior of Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-146)

This store was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-146/

img Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-26)

This market was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-26/

img People shopping at a market (ddr-densho-128-24)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-24/

img Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-21)

This market was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-21/

img Night view of Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-113)

This market was located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-113/

img Pacific Market (ddr-densho-128-23)

Frank Kubo stands in Pacific Market, located at 1305 Jackson Street in Seattle.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-23/

img Interior of Higo Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-16-25)

This photo shows the store's original light fixtures.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-16-25/

img Interior of Higo Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-16-2)

The Higo Ten-Cent Store, located in Seattle's Nihonmachi (Japantown), was owned and operated by Sanzo and Matsuyo Murakami. Established in the early 1900s, the store sold a wide variety of American- and Japanese-made goods to serve the surrounding Issei and Nisei community.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-16-2/

img Owner of Higo Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-16-6)

Kazuichi Kay Murakami stands inside his family's store.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-16-6/

img Exterior of Higo Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-16-1)

Sanzo and Matsuyo Murakami owned and operated the Higo Ten-Cent Store which was located on Weller Street in Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown. The Higo Ten-Cent Store is currently called the Higo Variety Store and continues to be a landmark business in Seattle's International District which was known as Nihonmachi before World War II. The store is …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-16-1/

img Interior of Higo Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-16-3)

The Higo Ten-Cent Store, established in the early 1900s by Sanzo Murakami and his wife Matsuyo, is one of the last prewar Japanese American businesses in Seattle's International District, formerly known as Nihonmachi. The store sold a wide variety of American- and Japanese-made goods to the surrounding Issei and Nisei community.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-16-3/

doc Higo Ten-Cent Store business card (ddr-densho-16-24)

This card shows the store's original address. Higo later moved from Weller to Jackson Street.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-16-24/

img Family Market (ddr-densho-162-11)

George Okino and Ike Ogata.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-162-11/