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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Three men next to and atop machinery (ddr-densho-475-316)
Black and white photograph of two unidentified men sitting atop machinery and a third unidentified man stands next to the machine.
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Man at work table (ddr-densho-475-313)
Black and white photograph of an unidentified man in coveralls at a work table.
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Man next to machinery (ddr-densho-475-315)
Black and white photograph of an unidentified man in coveralls standing with machinery inside a workshop.
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Crossroads Vol. IV, No. 17 (September 21, 1951) (ddr-densho-507-2)
Selected article titles: “Just Browsing” (p. 2), “Profile” (p. 3), “Society” (p. 4), “Social Silhouettes” (p. 5), “Club Notes” (p. 6), “Church Notices” (p. 6), “Sports” (p. 7), “Professional Directory” (p. 8)
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"Utah...Sanitarium" (ddr-densho-255-172)
Front of building with automobiles parked outside. Sign on building reads "Utah [illegible] Sanitarium."
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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.
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Narrator pointing at Heart Mountain painting Tom Ikeda is holding (ddr-densho-506-34)
Oral history narrator pointing to a mountain in a painting of the Heart Mountain camp that appears to be a of an incarceration camp.
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Sakaye Shigekawa in her Office (ddr-csujad-29-20)
Photograph of Sakaya Shigekawa in her office. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2490_P02
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Men working on a railroad (ddr-densho-353-43)
Captioned: "Snoqualmie Falls crew laying railroad tracks."
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Seizaburo Mukai's Jackson Theater (ddr-densho-353-95)
Seizaburo Mukai also ran the Atlas, the Circle, and the Rialto theaters.
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Block of Japanese businesses (ddr-densho-353-102)
Identified businesses are the dentists Dr. H Kato and Dr. S. Higashida upstairs, with the Welcome Hotel, Sanyo 10 cent store, Gosho Drugs, and the Jackson Street Sanitary barber shop on the street level.
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Men hauling produce in a truck (ddr-densho-353-49)
Captioned: "Produce hauled to the Pike Place Market on a new Mack truck."
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Jiro Kaneko's Pacific Printing Company (ddr-densho-353-87)
The Pacific Printing Company was located at 611 Main Street.
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Group of men with a car (ddr-densho-353-82)
Okayama men on Main Street in front of the Mitsuwado. Note on back: " NW Nikkei caption 6-89: Mr. Yanagi (leaning against car) with friends, celebrates his graduation from the U of W's pharmacy school before returning to Japan." Another note says "set at 100, 2 sec"
