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2010
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Title: Matsunosuke Oi Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1906-1966
Collection number: 2010
Creator:
Oi, Matsunosuke
Extent: 1 box(0.5 linear ft.) and 1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Matsunosuke Oi was born in 1885 in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. He arrived in the United States in 1906 and was a merchant and
community leader in Southern California and an active officer in various Japanese associations including being a founding
member of the postwar Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California. A bulk of the collection is about his participation
in that association. The collection also includes materials related to his life: personal papers including manuscripts of
his autobiography, correspondence related to the seizure of Oi's properties during his wartime internment, and a scrapbook
with newspaper clippings from the local press. Some materials in the collection are in Japanese.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Copyright has not been assigned to Library Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Library
Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
[Identification of item], Matsunosuke Oi Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233210
Matsunosuke Oi was born in 1885; a native of Kochi Prefecture, he arrived in the United States in 1906; he was a merchant
and community leader in Southern California; he was an active officer in various Japanese associations and was a founding
member of the postwar Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California.
Collection consists of materials related to the life of Matsunosuke Oi. The bulk of the collection is made up of Oi's association
with the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California and includes bylaws, notices, announcements, miscellaneous reports,
and financial reports. There are also miscellaneous reports and other material related to the Japanese American Citizens League.
Also contains personal papers of Oi and includes manuscripts of his autobiography, correspondence related to the seizure of
Oi's properties during his wartime internment, and a scrapbook with newspaper clippings from the local press (December 1941-April
1942).
Some materials in the collection are in Japanese.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Oi, Matsunosuke--Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles).
Businessmen--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Japanese Americans--California--Archival resources.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Clippings.
Japanese American Research Project Collection of Material about Japanese in the United States (Collection 2010)
. Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.