Finding Aid for the Yasukichi Iwasaki Papers, 1899-1965 LSC.2010.14

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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Yasukichi Iwasaki papers
Creator: Iwasaki, Yasukichi
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2010.14
Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1899-1965
Abstract: Iwasaki was born in 1876. A native of the Shiga Prefecture, he arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1899 and entered the United States in 1901. He worked as a section hand in Missoula, Montana, a cannery worker in Anacortes, Washington, and a hotel manager in Tacoma, Washington. In 1904 he started to farm in Washington and eventually moved to Hillsboro, Oregon, to settle down as a farmer in 1913. He and his family were interned in the Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho, during World War II. The collection consists of handwritten autobiographical sketches and diaries of Yasukichi Iwasaki, 1899-1900 and 1917-45. The entire collection is in Japanese.
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Language of Material: Materials are in Japanese.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942332043606533 

Biography

Iwasaki was born in 1876; a native of the Shiga Prefecture, he arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1899 and entered the United States in 1901; he worked as a section hand in Missoula, Montana, a cannery worker in Anacortes, Washington, and a hotel manager in Tacoma, Washington; in 1904 he started to farm in Washington and eventually moved to Hillsboro, Oregon, to settle down as a farmer in 1913; he and his family were interned in the Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho, during World War II.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of handwritten autobiographical sketches and diaries of Yasukichi Iwasaki, 1899-1900 and 1917-45.
The entire collection is in Japanese.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Handwritten autobiographical sketches (Box 82).
  2. Diaries (Boxes 82-85).

Related Material

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Japanese American farmers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Archives.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Diaries.
Iwasaki, Yasukichi--Archives.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)

 

Iwasaki Papers 1899-1965

General Physical Description note: 2.0 linear ft.
 

Brief Handwritten Autobiographical Sketches and Diaries 1899-1900 & 1917-1945

General Physical Description note: 2.0 linear ft.
box 82, folder 1

Handwritten autobiographical sketches. n.d. (ca. 1965)

General Physical Description note: (Manuscripts, 4 items)
box 82

Diaries. 1899-1900 & 1917-1922

General Physical Description note: (1 notebook & 6 diary-books)

Scope and Contents note

The entries in the first diary, 1899-1900, begin on September 29, 1899, the day on which he left his native village in Shiga Prefecture for his long trip to America.
box 83

Diaries. 1923-1929

General Physical Description note: (7 diary-books)
box 84

Diaries. 1930-1937

General Physical Description note: (8 diary-books)
box 85

Diaries. 1938-1945

General Physical Description note: (7 diary-books)

Scope and Contents note

Includes the diaries kept at the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho.