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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vh Frank Miyamoto Interview I Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-50-5)

Isseis' prewar employment: anti-Japanese sentiment in sawmills

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-50-5/

vh Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-68-1)

Sam's family background, working for the Port Blakely mill

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-68-1/

vh Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-68-2)

Prewar working conditions in the lumber mills: "Jap 1, Jap 2..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-68-2/

vh Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-68-3)

Description of prewar "Jap Village" in Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island, Washington

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-68-3/

vh Tosh Tokunaga Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-241-5)

Memories of Selleck logging camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-241-5/

vh Tosh Tokunaga Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-241-3)

Growing up in Selleck, Washington, lumber camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-241-3/

vh Tom Matsuoka Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-47-11)

Playing baseball with sawmill teams

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-47-11/

vh Tom Matsuoka Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-47-9)

Finding a job at a sawmill in Port Angeles

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-47-9/

vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-72-2)

Father's arrival in United States, working in a lumber camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-72-2/

vh Minoru "Min" Tsubota Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-149-5)

Parents' early businesses, running a small grocery store in Seattle and then a sawmill in Kent, Washington

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-149-5/

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

Growing up in a lumber community

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

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

Living conditions at the lumberyard

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

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

Father's job at the Weyerhaeuser lumber company

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

vh Shig Imai Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-49-3)

Father's work with the Oregon Lumber Company

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-7-49-3/

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 …

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

vh David Sakura Interview I Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-498-5)

Early memories of growing up in a Japanese American mill town community

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-498-5/

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

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

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

vh George Yamada Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-187-2)

Memories of childhood living at a sawmill camp

This interview was conducted as part of a project to capture stories of the Japanese American community of Spokane, Washington. Densho worked in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-187-2/