Wooden abacus (soroban) used by the Nakano family prior to World War II. Asataro Nakano and Misao Gyotoku Nakano immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. They settled in West Sacramento where they purchased land to farm. Their three children...
Abacus [lcsh]; Tule Lake Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Woodwork [lcsh]; Sakazaki, Shoya [aacr2]
This abacus (soroban) was made by Shoya Sakazaki out of scrap wood in Tule Lake Relocation Center when he was sixteen years old.
Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
Agricultural laborers [lcsh]; Family farms -- California --Sacramento County [lcsh]; Agriculture -- California -- Sacramento County [lcsh]; Farm trucks [lcsh];
The men are Jim and Russell, friends of the Takehara family. The crates read "Takehara." The Takehara family owned a farm in the Jackson and Bradshaw area of Sacramento County. They grew strawberries and grapes.
Agriculture -- California -- Butte County [lcsh]; Butte Farmland Company [aacr2]; Farm tractors [lcsh]; Japanese American farmers [lcsh];
Sixty horsepower caterpillar tractor and butane tank pulling harvester, dropping bagged rice as it moves along. Butte Farmland Company leased 2500 acres in Yolo County and 1000 acres in Butte County.
Agriculture -- California -- Florin -- History [lcsh];
"Oregon Plum" rubber stamp. An Oregon Plum is a strawberry which was grown in the Florin, California Area. They are small in size, but very sweet in taste. This stamp was used on each crate to identify its variety.
Agriculture -- California -- Sacramento County [lcsh]; Family farms -- California --Sacramento County [lcsh]; Farm trucks [lcsh];
Photographi taken on Takehara farm. The Takehara family owned a farm in the Jackson and Bradshaw area of Sacramento County. They grew strawberries and grapes.