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 A cigar shaped raft on the Columbia River (ddr-densho-353-155)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-155/

img Logs and tugboat (ddr-densho-278-250)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-278-250/

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

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

img Two men with felled tree (ddr-densho-278-175)

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-278-175/

img Lumber stacked (ddr-densho-299-13)

Caption on reverse: "FEC-49-1953. 25 March 49 / NRS Project: / Lumber yard showing precut lengths / of pine, oak, sugi, and stacked uncut / lengths of bamboo and sugi. / Photographer - Orzio / Photograph by U.S. Army."

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-13/

img Postcard photograph of four men with rifles (ddr-densho-383-428)

Postcard from Tsunezo Tokuda to Clara Pokiswinski. Tsunezo Tokuda pictured second from left. Written on back of postcard: "How are you? [To] Miss Clara Pokiswinski, Mukilteo, Wash."

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-428/

doc Memories of growing up in Mukilteo (ddr-densho-383-621)

Likely written by George Tokuda, signed "Dad"

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-621/

img Postcard photograph of logging crew (ddr-densho-383-429)

Postcard from Tsunezo Tokuda to Clara Pokiswinski. Written on back of photograph: "J.T. [To] Miss Clara Pokiswinski, Mukilteo."

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-429/

img Postcard photograph of Tsunezo Tokuda with rifle. (ddr-densho-383-430)

Written on back of postcard: "Grandpa Tokuda. Between 1905-1910".

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-430/

img Large group of men outside sawmill (ddr-densho-383-378)

Kameki Inouye pictured in group.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-378/

img Two men working in sawmill (ddr-densho-383-377)

One of the two men is Kameki Inouye.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-377/

img Large group of men outside sawmill (ddr-densho-383-379)

Kameki Inouye pictured in group. Written on mat frame: "Grandfather Inouye, sawmill".

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-379/

doc Barneston's Japanese Community (ddr-densho-381-175)

A report prepared for the Seattle Water Department that discusses the history of Japanese immigration and community in Barneston, Washington, including a transcript of Yoshi Hibiya's oral history.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-175/

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 …

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