Finding Aid for the Kichimatsu Taguchi papers, 1909-1935 LSC.2010.32

Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Kichimatsu Taguchi papers
Creator: Taguchi, Kichimatsu
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2010.32
Physical Description: 2 oversize_boxes
Date (inclusive): 1909-1935
Abstract: Kichimatsu Taguchi was born in 1881 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. He arrived in Hawaii in 1900; settled in Colorado ca. 1908. He was the owner of the Taguchi Company and joint owner of Manzanola Farming Company, both in Rocky Ford, Colorado. This collection consists of business records related to the shipment of cantaloupes harvested in Rocky Ford, Colorado, in association with George N. Dobashi, and personal correspondence. The collection also contains account books related to the Taguchi Company and Manzanola Farming Company. Some of the collection is in Japanese.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English and Japanese.

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[Identification of item], Kichimatsu Taguchi Papers, Japanese American Research Project Collection (Collection 2010). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942338503606533 

Biography

Kichimatsu Taguchi was born 1881; a native of Yamaguchi Prefecture, he arrived in Hawaii in 1900; settled in Colorado ca. 1908; owner of the Taguchi Company and joint owner of Manzanola Farming Company, both in Rocky Ford, Colorado.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of business records and personal correspondence related to businessman Kichimatsu Taguchi. The collection contains business records related to the shipment of cantaloupes harvested in Rocky Ford, Colorado, in association with George N. Dobashi, and includes correspondence, telegrams, bills, and receipts (1914-29). The collection also contains account books related to the Taguchi Company and Manzanola Farming Company (1909-35).
Materials in this collection are in English and Japanese.

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Related Material

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Business records.
Ledgers (account books).
Japanese Americans -- Colorado -- Archives.
Businessmen -- Colorado -- Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)
Taguchi, Kichimatsu--Archives.

 

Taguchi Papers

General Physical Description note: 3 linear ft.

Scope and Contents note

Taguchi Kichimatsu [characters] (1881- ). Merchant, Rocky Ford, Colorado. A native of Yamaguchi Prefecture who arrived in Hawaii in 1900 and transmigrated to mainland United States in 1904. Resident of Colorado from about 1908.
 

Miscellaneous Business Records 1914-1929

General Physical Description note: 0.5 linear ft.

Scope and Contents note

Chiefly on the shipment of cantaloupes from Rocky Ford, which Taguchi contracted in partnership with another Japanese, George N. Dobashi. Includes a few personal papers.
box 143, folder 1

Personal correspondence of Taguchi. September 1913-February 1915

General Physical Description note: (11 items)
box 143, folder 2

Business correspondence on the shipment of cantaloupes. May 1914-July 1916

General Physical Description note: (69 items)
box 143, folder 3

Telegrams exchanged on the shipment of cantaloupes. August-October 1915

General Physical Description note: (60 pieces)
box 143, folder 4

Shipment records. August-October 1915 & August 1916

General Physical Description note: (5 items)
box 143, folder 5

Reports on marketing information by the Department of Agriculture, Office of Markets and Rural Organization. September 1915

General Physical Description note: (7 items)
box 143, folder 6

Miscellaneous business records. August-November 1915

General Physical Description note: (12 pieces)
box 143, folder 7

Copy of a lease agreement. July 1916

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 143, folder 8

Bills and receipts. December 1910, October 1913, August-October 1915, and August-October 1916.

General Physical Description note: (107 pieces)
box 143, folder 9

Statements on Taguchi's railroad damage claim of 1922. June 10, 1924

General Physical Description note: (2 pieces)
box 143, folder 10

Miscellaneous business correspondence. March-April 1929

General Physical Description note: (5 pieces)
 

Account books of the Taguchi Company and the Mansanola Farming Company in Rocky Ford, Colorado 1909-1935

General Physical Description note: 2.5 linear ft. (4 account books)
box 144

An expense account book, covering the period August 1915-May 1924, of the Manzanola Farming Company owned jointly by 4 Japanese including Taguchi in Rocky Ford, Colorado.

General Physical Description note: (1 account book)
box 144

3 cash books of the Taguchi Company. April 1909-December 1935

General Physical Description note: (3 account books)
box 144

Payment records of Japanese customers, Taguchi Company. ca. 1913-1915

General Physical Description note: (4 account books)
box 724

The Taguchi Company's ledgers. April 1909-December 1931

General Physical Description note: (4 account books)
box 725

The Taguchi Company's ledger. 1927-1932

General Physical Description note: (1 account book)