| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Ichiro Okumura |
| Alternative Title |
Ichiro Okumura: interviews on July 13, 1984; and July 20, 1984 |
| Creator |
Okumura, Ichiro, 1922-2003 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1984-07-13; 1984-07-20 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Manzanar, Inyo County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5370201/ ; Idaho, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5596512/ |
| Subject |
Okumura, Ichiro, 1922-2003--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Manzanar War Relocation Center; Railroads--Employees |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 57 pages) of a two interviews with Ichiro Okumura, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1984. Mr. Okumura (b. 1922) describes his childhood in California, camp life at Manzanar, harvesting crops in Idaho on a work furlough, a job maintaining railroad track, and discrimination |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6ns2br3 |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Manzanar War Relocation Center; Railroads--Employees |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897767 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ns2br3 |
| Title |
Page 35 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897743 |
| OCR Text |
Show Ichiro Okumura 7-20-84 s1:6 end. L They could shoot the water down. IO Yeah. Heck we used tomve what they call leveling floats. One man would stand in back there Like my Dad would stand in back and I'd run the tractor and he'd take the dirt, you know, and like a bucket. You've seen like graders and that where they take. L Dirt-- IO Yeah, move the dirt from the high spot to the low spot. Well, that's what we did. And so we had a blacksmith. Well, a friend of mine was farming in Murray and he had the type of a float and we asked him, if he brought one, from when hemoved here from California. See, they came direct-- L What's a float. IO Well, it's a eveler. L Just a kind of a shovel. IO It's like a box with wheels on it. Andyou pull it with a tractor. And t has a little thing- a lever that you can raise up and down. And t's like a bucket on a shovel. L And you can pick dirt up with it. IO No, you don't pick it up . Actually, you take it with you. And then you--then you let up on the thing to let it out, a little bit at a time. Just like a dump, whatever you want to call them. L Who wasyour friend in Murray. IO A fellow named Cato. And they went back to California. I guess they're farming some place. I don't know. Anyway, we took a blacksmith with us. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ns2br3/897743 |
