This collection contains materials regarding Tomoji Wada's business on Terminal Island, California, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Included are taxes, receipts of expenses, and ledgers, receipts for his donations to Japanese American organizations, photographs, journals, notebooks, books, a metal seal stamp for Terminal Island Credit Union, immigration documents of Tomoji and Kan Wada, WRA documents, and wood carving tools and plaques created in the camp. Materials include image files created and transferred from the donor as well as digitized materials produced by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections. Selected digitized items in this collection are available online.

Tomoji Wada (1882 October 2–1964 October 24) was the 11th head of the Wada clan, one of the local ruling families in Wakayama, Japan. The Wada clan is also a descendant of Chubei Yoritomo Wada, who was a whaling pioneer in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan, in the 15th century.

6 boxes (4 document boxes and 2 short top boxes including 2 disks (1 CD and DVD))

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