Timber

Japanese immigrants (Issei) replaced Chinese workers after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act went into effect. Laborers were recruited by contracting companies to cut timber and work in sawmills. In rare instances, Issei women joined their husbands, living among the other workers in segregated shantytowns.

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img Port Blakely sawmill (ddr-densho-34-84)

Torazo "Slab Harry" Nakao (in the white hat) and his co-workers at the Port Blakely sawmill on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Port Blakely is located on the southeast end of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-84/

Japanese Guard Their Mill. Say White Men Attempted to Wreck the Establishment. Armed Workmen and Jiu Jitsu Wrestlers Awaiting Trouble. (December 14, 1904) (ddr-densho-56-47)

doc Japanese Guard Their Mill. Say White Men Attempted to Wreck the Establishment. Armed Workmen and Jiu Jitsu Wrestlers Awaiting Trouble. (December 14, 1904) (ddr-densho-56-47)

The Seattle Daily Times, December 14, 1904, p. 4

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-47/

vh Harry Ueno Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1002-7-2)

Returning to the United States in 1923, working in a lumber mill

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life ...

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-7-2/

vh Eiko Yamaichi Interview Segment 3 (ddr-manz-1-175-3)

Father's job at the Weyerhaeuser lumber company

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-175-3/

vh Kunio Otani Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-75-2)

Growing up in a lumber community

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-75-2/

img Workers at a log conveyor (ddr-densho-353-47)

Photo taken in Wallace, WA, near the startup.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-47/

vh George Morihiro Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-182-6)

Helping father deliver sake to neighbors; father's work in the sawmill industry

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-182-6/

img Japanese men in suits (ddr-csujad-25-2)

A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Five photographs are pasted on the page. The photographs appear to be taken in Washington in the early 1900s. Include Japanese men in suits. Also includes a photograph of a timber mill. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_07_01_002

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-25-2/

img Port Blakely sawmill (ddr-densho-34-69)

This sawmill employed many Issei during the early 1900s. Port Blakely is located on the southeast end of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-69/

doc Japanese Organize Lumber Pool Here. Uniform Import Policy Planned. (December 31, 1938) (ddr-densho-56-486)

The Seattle Daily Times, December 31, 1938, p. 3

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-486/

doc Poindexter Favors Oriental Labor. (September 10, 1910) (ddr-densho-56-181)

The Seattle Daily Times, September 10, 1910, p. 6

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-181/

I.W.W. Plans Blow to Federation Unionists. State Labor Commissioner Hears of Plot to Return to Lumber Camps and Let A.F.L. Stay Out in Cold. (September 11, 1917) (ddr-densho-56-300)

doc I.W.W. Plans Blow to Federation Unionists. State Labor Commissioner Hears of Plot to Return to Lumber Camps and Let A.F.L. Stay Out in Cold. (September 11, 1917) (ddr-densho-56-300)

The Seattle Daily Times, September 11, 1917, p. 3

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-300/

img Man sitting on a felled tree (ddr-densho-278-217)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-278-217/

img Selleck sawmill (ddr-densho-178-9)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-178-9/

img Issei workers at Selleck camp (ddr-densho-124-29)

These workers are sitting outside their housing at the Japanese camp in Selleck, Washington. Selleck was the site of the Pacific States Lumber Company.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-124-29/

img Issei man at Selleck camp (ddr-densho-124-14)

Raisuke Tamura standing on a tree stump at the Japanese camp in Selleck, Washington. This camp housed Japanese laborers who worked for the Pacific States Lumber Company. Raisuke sold Japanese goods and food to the people living in Selleck.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-124-14/

vh Eiko Yamaichi Interview Segment 6 (ddr-manz-1-175-6)

Living conditions at the lumberyard

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-175-6/