ddr-densho-259 — Yasui Family Collection — Objects

img Workers picking strawberries (ddr-densho-259-251)

Workers picking strawberries on the Yasui family farm in Willow Flat, Oregon.

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img Nisei children at an undokai (ddr-densho-259-252)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This shows a long line of Hood River Nisei kids marching to the picnic and racing grounds area of our undokai, which as far as I can remember, was always held at our Mosier farm."

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img Workers picking strawberries (ddr-densho-259-253)

Workers picking strawberries, possibly on the Yasui family farm in Willow Flat, Oregon.

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img Japanese American man picking apples (ddr-densho-259-254)

Japanese American man in a suit picking apples, possibly in Willow Flat, Oregon.

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img Japanese visitors at a fruit packing house (ddr-densho-259-255)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a group of 3 Japanese visitors and a young Japanese girl [Masuo] was showing the visitors what our fruit sorting conveyor belt looked like in the packing house at Willow Flat."

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img Two Issei men in coats (ddr-densho-259-256)

Masuo Yasui, right, with a man who may have been Taro Miyake. Caption by Homer Yasui: "Taro Miyake was the editor of a Portland, Oregon, Japanese vernacular newspaper called the Coast Times."

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img Two men in an apple orchard (ddr-densho-259-257)

Two unidentified Japanese American men in an apple orchard, possibly in Willow Flat, Oregon. The man on the left is probably Masuo Yasui.

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img Issei man with visitors (ddr-densho-259-258)

Masuo Yasui with unidentified visitors.

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img Portrait of a Nisei boy (ddr-densho-259-259)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Nisei boy wearing a necktie and a pullover sweater. This was 'George' Yutaka Iwasa, the only child of Inosuke and Haruye Iwasa. They lived in the Belmont district of Hood River."

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img Two men in an apple orchard (ddr-densho-259-260)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and a young Japanese man wearing a striped suit and holding an apple in each hand. I don't know who this man was."

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img Japanese family visiting a farm (ddr-densho-259-261)

Unidentified visitors to the Yasui family's farm in Willow Flat, Oregon.

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img Japanese American and white men and boys at St. Marks church (ddr-densho-259-262)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "St. Marks Church in Hood River, showing [Masuo Yasui], several Issei men, a Caucasian minister, and remarkably, a Japanese minister not Isaac Inouye. St. Marks was either a Catholic or Episcopalian church--or maybe it was a Lutheran church. In any event, the two clerics are wearing their collars backwards, as Catholic and …

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img Japanese American family (ddr-densho-259-263)

Unidentified Japanese American family.

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img Japanese women in kimono (ddr-densho-259-264)

Unidentified Japanese women in kimono.

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img Issei men outside a store (ddr-densho-259-265)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This is the Oak Street view of the back half of the second Yasui Brothers store in Hood River. The man at the left was Kamematsu Norimatsu, but I don't know the other man."

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img Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-266)

Unidentified Japanese woman in kimono.

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img Japanese woman and child in kimono (ddr-densho-259-267)

Unidentified Japanese woman and child.

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img Acreage of strawberry plants (ddr-densho-259-268)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large acreage of strawberry plants I will guess that it was taken at either Summit or in Dee."

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img Nikkei standing in front of a store (ddr-densho-259-269)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Print of several Nikkei standing in front of a clapboard wooden building, over the doorway of which can be seen the number 14 Shown here was the south side of the second Yasui brothers store, which was located on the northeast corner of First Street and Oak Street in Hood River."

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img Nikkei children in Japan (ddr-densho-259-270)

The Karasawa family with kites in Japan, including Rin Karasawa (center) and Jun Karasawa far right).

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img Issei men and women beside a passenger train (ddr-densho-259-271)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Two Issei men standing besides [sic] a passenger train; three women in the background. One of the 3 Issei women is [Shidzuyo Yasui], who is wearing a very long coat and a very large black hat with a long ostrich plume."

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img "Girls from Dee" (ddr-densho-259-272)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Five Nisei girls who lived in Dee [Oregon]. This picture was taken on the south side of the old Dee Japanese Community Hall. I can identify Mikie Kageyama and Hannah Kinoshita but I don't recognize the other three."

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img Nikkei children on a farm (ddr-densho-259-273)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Nikkei children at the Mosier farm Front row, [left to right]: Kingo Kanemasu; I think a Kajita boy; Shigenobu Yamaki; Takaaki Yasui; I think another Kajita boy; 3 unidentified girls in a row; Shizue Yasui; Reverend Isaac Inouye. Second & back rows: Mr. Hatsutaro Kajita; Michi Yasui (looking over Yakaaki Yasui's shoulder); …

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img "Issei women hoeing strawberries" (ddr-densho-259-274)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Two Issei women hoeing strawberries This picture is interesting because it shows them wearing long dresses with long sleeves, and large straw hats. This kind of attire for farm work wasn't the functional and comfortable clothing that the Issei farm women used to wear in our day. Also it shows very well …

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img Governor James Withycombe and Queen Sybil Baker in the Portland Rose Festival (ddr-densho-259-275)

Governor James Withycombe and "Queen Sybil" (Sybil Baker) in the Portland Rose Festival Parade.

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