180 items
180 items
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-868)
Letter from New York. Kan has received word that Frank Lloyd Wright has an apprenticeship opening and would like to interview him, so he is planning to travel to Wisconsin for the interview. He has some guilt about leaving Myaida's Garden Clinic so soon when they are clearly benefiting from his business savvy. Also shares anecdotes …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-863)
Letter from New York City. Mostly anecdotes about spending time with his co-workers in their time off in the city, going to bookstores and the library and seeing shows. Anecdotes about his boss at the New York World's Fair job, landscape architect Shogo Myaida. Taking and printing pictures from the worksite. In pencil on back of …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-871)
Letter from Chicago. Kan is on his way to interview with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. He talks about driving his Ford, and the places he is passing through: visiting the zoo with Mary Fujii in Chicago, Niagara Falls, impressions of the landscapes as he drives through Ohio and Indiana on his way to Wisconsin. On …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-857)
Letter from New York. Mostly discusses relations with Kan's employer (landscape architect Shogo Myaida) on the gardening job he's doing for the World's Fair. Feels extorted by his boss (landscape architect Nagao Sakurai). Frustrated that Sakurai also wants him to act as a Japanese interpreter; struggles because his Japanese isn't very good. Gives a detailed account …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-870)
Letter from New York. Kan shares an anecdote about a couple getting stuck suspended in the parachute jump concession at the World's Fair. On arguing to get paid fairly for his work after completion of a rock garden project. Taking care of last things in New York before leaving on his trip to interview with Frank …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-862)
Letter from New York City. On his interactions with the landscape architect running the World's Fair garden project, Nagao Sakurai. On working with Japanese gardeners on the project and what everyone eats for lunch. On the weather. Kan reflects on what he's learning from his work and declares, "One thing that I have found out and …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-866)
Letter from New York. Since finishing the New York World's Fair job Kan has moved out to Albertson, N. Y. He is working for his recent boss at the fair, landscape architect Shogo Myaida. Season changing to spring. He has visited Frank Lloyd Wright's 1937 Rebhuhn House in Long Island and includes detailed impressions.
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-874)
Letter from Taliesin. Kan is working in the Taliesin kitchen, working on designing and fixing up his room as his main solo creative project, and working with other fellows on landscaping a hillside for which they are sourcing local plants from the area His old boss, landscape architect Shogo Myaida, has invited him back to work …
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-879)
Letter from New Rochelle on Kan's studio stationery. Kan asks Wak how her recent trip to Japan was, and asks for updates on the relatives she saw there. He offers updates on all his children. He has "two small jobs starting to build" and hopes to start on another one in Usonia soon.
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Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-877)
Letter from Richard J. Miller saying he has a letter for Wak from Mr. Kaoru Nakashima for her and would like to send it if he can have her current address; response from Toichi with Wak's address in Boston; envelope showing Boston address crossed out and a New Rochelle, New York address penciled in.
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Laverne Yamada and Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-443-48)
Photograph of Laverne Yamada (left) and Wakako Domoto (right) sitting together. Written below the image on the album page is "1947" in white pencil. Written on the top of the album page is "314 Walnut St / San Francisco / Nov. 1946 - Mrs. MacLeod - 1949 July" in white pencil.
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Wakako Domoto and Jean Kohatsu (ddr-densho-443-54)
Mash-up of two photograph, on the left is Wakako Domoto standing in front of a door with a Marin City sign hung above. On the right is Jean Kohatsu sitting in front of a building with two men sitting on a bench behind her. Written to the right of the image on the album page is …
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Wakako Domoto and Jean Kohatsu (ddr-densho-443-44)
Photograph of Jean Kohatsu (left) and Wakako "Wak" Domoto (right" playing cards. Written above the image on the album page is "Roommate Jean Kohatsu / Glendale, Arizona / A Swell Gal!" in white pencil. Written on the top of the album page is "314 Walnut St / San Francisco / Nov. 1946 - Mrs. MacLeod - …
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Letter of employment for Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-356-159)
Letter from Colorado Governor Ralph Carr to Wakako Domoto offering employment as a housekeeper and detailing duties of the job (keeping house and cooking).
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Letter to Yuri Domoto from Wak Domoto (ddr-densho-356-580)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her sister Wakako Domoto. Wak writes about her first days working for former Colorado Governor Ralph Carr as a housekeeper and information about applying for sentrogarphy courses.
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Postcard to Yuri Tsukada from Wak Domoto (ddr-densho-356-596)
Postcard addressed to the Domoto family (Kaneji & Sally Domoto) and the Tsukada (Yuriko & Richard Tsukada) family from Yuri and Kaneji's sister Wakako Domoto. Wak writes about the delay in her flight to Japan and the possibility of not going.
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Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Wak Domoto (ddr-densho-356-581)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her sister Wakako Domoto. Wak writes her journey to California during which she learned a lot of news about individuals they knew in Japan and Nisei who served in the war, she also details how she spent Easter with their sister Tokuko Kishi.