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 Road in a plantation (ddr-csujad-33-187)

Photographed is a road in a plantation in Peru. A photo from an album: Colonisation Japonaise au Perou (csudh_cjp_0001), page 29. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: cjp_01_29_188

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-33-187/

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

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

img Logging crew (ddr-densho-124-30)

Raisuke Tamura (left) visits an issei logging crew at Selleck, Washington. Raisuke sold Japanese goods and food to the workers living in Selleck.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-124-30/

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.

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

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.

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

img Men, woman, and child with piles of cleared lumber (ddr-densho-255-60)

Japanese American men, woman, and child with piles of lumber. Japanese caption on reverse.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-60/

img Men in cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-59)

Three men standing in a cleared woodland area by piles of lumber. Japanese caption on reverse.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-59/

img Men in cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-61)

Three men standing in a cleared woodland area by piles of lumber. Japanese caption on reverse.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-61/

img Woodland being cleared (ddr-densho-255-104)

Seven workers clearing woodland.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-104/

img Workers on cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-105)

Men working in cleared woodland.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-105/

img Two men with lumber (ddr-densho-255-171)

Two men in front of a cleared area with cut lumber.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-171/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

img Masahachi Nakata's sawmill (ddr-densho-353-154)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-154/

img A group of men (ddr-densho-353-48)

Workers on bunkhouse steps.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-48/

img A group in front of a house (ddr-densho-353-33)

Shoichiro Katsuno at Pontiac (now the Windermere/Sand Point area) Written on back: "House built by Mr. Katsuno c.1913. Paid only for glass, nails, stovepipe, all the wood was free for clearing the land, knew how to make cedar shakes from work in sawmill earlier."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-33/