This is a picture of the smelter camp in Midvale, Utah (a smelting town some 12 miles southwest of Salt Lake City) where we moved in the early 1920's after the boom wore off in Tooele. My father was again a camp "boss" and worked for the United States Smelting and Refining Co. for nearly 30 years. He lost his job when the war broke out and he was interned. He went back to the smelter for a short time and worked until his death in 1948. This camp as I recall was not an all-Japanese as the Tooele Camp had been; in fact, there were only a handful of Isseis (four including my father when WWII started) living here and there quite a number of Greek single men as well as a Mexican family -- quite cosmopolitan. However since my father spoke English...
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-137)The history of the Japanese who lived in Placer C...
Transcript (typescript, 150 pages) of a series of interviews with Frank Nishiguchi, a Japanese-Ameri...
Transcript (66 pages) of interview by Leslie Kellen with Dr. Edward I. Hashimoto on April 25, 1984Ha...
In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,00...
Transcript (typescript, 46 pages) of two interview with Yasuo Sasaki, a Japanese-American living in ...
These pictures show the varied routine of the smelter camp life. Picture "A" typifies the habitual n...
posterJapantown was located in Salt Lake City,Utah from South Temple to 400 south from 700 west to S...
Transcript (typescript, 86 pages) of a series of interviews with Sam Watanuki, a Japanese-American ...
Transcript (typescript, 250 pages) of a series of interviews with Siigeki "Shake" Ushio, a Japanese-...
The interview with Kosuye Okura covers the subjects of immigrating to the United States, making sake...
Transcript (typescript, 97 pages) of an interview with Yukus Yukiyoshi Inouye, a Japanese-American l...
Transcript (typescript, 53 pages) of four interviews with Hiroji Okumura, a Japanese-American living...
Transcript (typescript, 37 pages) of two interviews with Tadao Ushio, a Japanese-American living in ...
Transcript (typescript, 88 pages) of two interviews with Roy Tachiki, a Japanese-American living in ...
Transcript (typescript, 89 pages) of two interviews with Kiyotoshi Iwamoto, a Japanese-American livi...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-137)The history of the Japanese who lived in Placer C...
Transcript (typescript, 150 pages) of a series of interviews with Frank Nishiguchi, a Japanese-Ameri...
Transcript (66 pages) of interview by Leslie Kellen with Dr. Edward I. Hashimoto on April 25, 1984Ha...
In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,00...
Transcript (typescript, 46 pages) of two interview with Yasuo Sasaki, a Japanese-American living in ...