Uchida (Zenʼichirō) papers

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Uchida (Zenʼichirō) papers

2020C48

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Table of contents

box 1, folder 1

Passports 1966, 1972, 1977

box 1, folder 2

Address book undated

box 1, folder 3

Personal journals 1974-1979

box 1, folder 4

Personal journals 1980-1984

box 1, folder 5

Personal journals 1986-1989

box 2, folder 1

Personal journals 1990-1993

box 2, folder 2

Personal journals 1994-1999

box 2, folder 3

Personal journals 2000-2003

box 2, folder 4

Personal journals 2004-2006

box 2, folder 5

Personal biography Amerika wo taku (アメリカを拓く) vol. 1 and 2 1991

box 3, folder 1

Photos circa 1950-2000

box 3, folder 2

Refugee Relief Act that Stopped Anti-American Campaign 1950s

box 3, folder 3

Visit records of immigrant families Imin angya no tabi (移民行脚の旅)

box 3, folder 4

Photos circa 1938-2008

box 3, folder 5

Newpaper articles 1993

box 3, folder 6

Unpublished document "Gambatte Kimashita: Japanese Flower Growers of the Salinas Valley" circa 2008

box 4

Photo album "Kagoshima-ken kaigai ijū kinen shashinchō" (Kagoshima prefecture immigration commemorative photo album) 1967

box 5

Photo album 1950s

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Box 5 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

box MC29

CD-ROM titled "Dreams Blossom" 2019

Scope and Contents

1 optical disk

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Japanese Refugee Farm Camps Motion Picture Film 1957-1958, undated

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Scope and Contents

3 8mm motion picture reels created by Zen'ichirō Uchida to serve as a visual correspondence between about 350 Japanese farm workers who came to the United States on refugee visas in 1955-1956 and their family members in Japan. The Japanese farm workers had three-year contracts to work in Japanese American-operated farm camps in various locations in California while their families waited to join them after completing their contracts.

box 6, reel 1

Kawasaki farm camp in Fresno, Nishida farm camp, Kitayama nursery in Watsonville, and families' departure from Japan (Yokohama or Kobe) 1958

box 6, reel 2

Families joining the Japanese farm workers in 1957-1958, downtown Los Angeles and farmland in Watsonville 1957-1958

box 6, reel 3

Seeding bedding plants, chicken farm, farm camp in Fresno, sightseeing for the families before their departure for the United States undated

Collection Contents

Japanese Refugee Farm Camps Motion Picture Film