Yasui Brothers business records, 1904-1990

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Yasui Bros. Co. (Hood River, Or.)
Title
Yasui Brothers business records
Dates
1904-1990 (inclusive)
1908-1942 (bulk)
Quantity
179.41 cubic feet, (126 record cartons; 6 document cases; 1 slim document case; 7 flat boxes; 47 oversize flat boxes; 2 card file boxes; 8 oversize folders)
Collection Number
Mss 2949
Summary
The Yasui Brothers business records document the Yasui family's business, personal, and community-related activities in Hood River, Oregon, from the start of the 20th century until World War II. The collection is composed primarily of correspondence, business operation records, and financial files from the Yasui Bros. Co. general stores that Masuo Yasui and his brother Renichi Fujimoto operated from 1908 to 1942, as well as their orchards and farms in the Hood River Valley, and the various side businesses and services that Masuo Yasui offered in support of the Japanese American community in the area. A smaller amount of personal and family materials documents one Japanese American family's experience immigrating to the United States and successfully building a livelihood, as well as their later forced incarceration under U.S. government policy during World War II and the consequences it had on their lives. Approximately two-thirds of the materials in this collection were written in a pre-World War II Japanese script that is distinct from modern Japanese, while the remainder of the materials are in English. Selected documents have been translated into English and modern Japanese and are viewable online in OHS Digital Collections.
Repository
Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
Japanese, English
Sponsor
This collection was processed and partially translated through a grant-funded project made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the State Library of Oregon.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Nearly two-thirds of the materials in this collection were written in a pre-World War II Japanese script (sometimes also known as Old Japanese) that is distinct from modern Japanese, while the remainder of the materials are in English. To facilitate archival arrangement and description of the collection, a team of translators was engaged in 2022-2023 as part of a grant-funded processing project (see sponsorship note). Translators reviewed and briefly interpreted the highest priority Old Japanese language materials and summarized folder contents in English. Individual documents were then selected for full or partial translation; these documents were chosen either for their historical significance or because they were representative of types of content in the collection overall. During the grant project, 54 documents were translated into English and modern Japanese, and over 100 more were identified as candidates for future translation as time and funding allow. When translations are available, they are included in the collection with the original documents and are also viewable online in OHS Digital Collections; a list showing which folders of Old Japanese language materials were reviewed and the locations of interpreted and translated documents is available to researchers upon request.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

In 1903, seventeen-year-old Masuo Yasui left Nanukaichi in the Okayama prefecture of Japan for the western United States, stopping in Portland before he joined family members in working on the Union Pacific Railroad, along with thousands of other laborers from Japan. Two years later, Masuo returned to Japantown in Portland, Oregon, intent on learning English while working various jobs. Masuo later convinced his brother Renichi Fujimoto to move with him to Hood River, Oregon, which had a growing population of Japanese immigrant laborers. In 1908, Masuo Yasui and Renichi Fujimoto opened the Yasui Bros. Co. store in Hood River, the first iteration of what would become four locations of their successful business over the next three and a half decades.

A few years later, Masuo Yasui married Shidzuyo Miyake, a college-educated teacher also from Nanukaichi, Okayama, who joined him in Oregon in late 1912. Over the next two decades, the couple had nine children: sons Kay, sometimes spelled Kei (born 1914), Tsuyoshi, later known as Ray or Chop (born 1915), and Minoru, often known as Min (born 1917); daughters Yuki (born 1918) and Michi (born 1920); sons Roku (born 1922), Shu (born 1923), and Homer (born 1924); and youngest daughter Yuka (born 1927). Yuki died of an illness at age 3, and eldest son Kay committed suicide at age 17. Renichi Fujimoto married Matsuyo Senno in 1904, but obligations to Renichi's adoptive family in Japan, the Fujimotos, kept her from immigrating to the United States to join him until 1931. Renichi and Matsuyo had no children of their own, but were close with Masuo and Shidzuyo's children.

The Yasui Bros. Co. store played a central role as a social hub and meeting place for the Japanese American community in Hood River. Masuo became a vital contact for Japanese immigrants and their families. He frequently helped fellow Japanese Americans find employment and housing, and used his English fluency to assist with legal and government forms, such as citizenship documentation for children born in the United States, and to broker small land purchases. The Yasui Bros. store also sold life insurance and brokered steamship travel arrangements to and from Japan.

In addition to operating the store, the Yasuis took advantage of the agricultural potential in the Hood River Valley and surrounding areas, where they bought and leased land for their own farms and orchards in Dee, Mosier, and Willow Flat. Like many in the area, they produced apples and pears, but also strawberries and asparagus, which the Yasuis and other Japanese American farmers introduced to the region. Their farming operations spawned trucking and shipping businesses, and Masuo Yasui created a cooperative called the Mid-Columbia Vegetable Growers Association to help with packing and shipping of asparagus.

Masuo Yasui also served as a liaison between the Japanese American and white communities in Hood River, fielding inquiries from business owners in search of laborers and helping to settle disputes. Over time, Masuo grew into a leading representative of his community, founding the Japanese Savings Association of Hood River and constructing and operating a Japanese Community Hall, while also being a rare Japanese American member in mostly white organizations like the Rotary Club. He was the first Japanese American person elected to the powerful Apple Growers Association and received the most votes of any candidate in 1939. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Masuo Yasui was recognized by the Portland Japanese Consulate for his services to his community, and received awards from the Japanese government and other agencies for fostering business relations between the United States and Japan.

However, as the Yasuis and other Japanese immigrants prospered, anti-Japanese sentiment was growing among white residents in Hood River. In 1923, Oregon passed a bill preventing Japanese and Chinese immigrants from owning land, and a local Anti-Asiatic Association formed soon after. Anti-Japanese sentiment came to a boiling point after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The FBI arrested Masuo Yasui, then 55, five days later with no official charges or evidence of treason. He would remain in government detention until after the end of the war, and was repeatedly transferred among various federal detention centers, including Fort Missoula, Montana; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and Camp Livingston, Louisiana.

In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing exclusion of "any and all persons" from areas designated by the military, which would, within months, result in the government's forced removal and mass incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast. In March, after being refused for U.S. military enlistment, Minoru Yasui, who had become a lawyer and was living in Portland, Oregon, deliberately violated a curfew imposed on Japanese Americans in order to be arrested and establish the basis for a legal challenge to the curfew. He was convicted and spent nine months in solitary confinement; during this time, his case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court upheld his conviction and ruled that the curfew was legal.

The Yasui family's situation would continue to worsen; in the spring of 1942, the Yasui Bros. Co. store was forcibly closed and the family's other assets were frozen or confiscated. Not long afteward, Yasui family members were among the Japanese Americans sent by the U.S. government to incarceration camps, euphemistically called "war relocation centers," which were typically located in dry and desolate locations. While Masuo was held in Louisiana and Min was in solitary confinement in the Multnomah County Jail, Shidzuyo, Renichi, Matsuyo, Ray (also known as Chop or Tsuyoshi) and his wife, Mickie, as well as young Homer and Yuka, were sent first to the temporary Pinedale Assembly Center near Fresno, California, then to the Tule Lake incarceration camp. Min appealed unsuccessfully to the government for his father to join the rest of the family as Shidzuyo and other family members and friends wrote letters pleading for a rehearing, but all requests were denied. In June 1943, Masuo was transferred to the Santa Fe Detention Center in New Mexico, where his family could finally request to visit him. By this time, Minoru Yasui and Renichi and Matsuyo Fujimoto were being held at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in southern Idaho. Roku, Michi, and Shu Yasui, college students at the time, had avoided incarceration through geographical location or preemptive travel to Denver, Colorado.

Life in the camps was difficult for most of those incarcerated; families were largely separated, food was bad and extreme elements pierced the shoddily constructed barracks. The Yasuis wrote letters to each other through this period and visited Masuo as often as possible. Ray secured a work leave to do farm labor in Idaho, while Shidzuyo successfully petitioned for educational releases for her younger children; they joined Michi in Denver, where Minoru also came after his release in fall 1944. Despite an active letter-writing campaign with the support of senators and the Japanese American Citizens League, Masuo was detained until January 1946, five months after Japan surrendered and the war was declared to have ended. He joined the rest of the family in Denver upon his release.

As was the case for many other Japanese Americans, incarceration caused the Yasuis to lose their home, savings, businesses, and all but one of their farms, and they never regained what they once had. Hood River made national headlines toward the end of the war for its virulent racism and antagonism toward Japanese American residents to deter them from returning to the area, and the local post of the American Legion had waged a campaign against Masuo's release. Masuo and Shidzuyo left Denver to return to Oregon but resettled in Portland instead; only Ray Yasui returned to Hood River, to restore the now disheveled orchard in Willow Flat. In 1952, at their first opportunity to do so under federal law, the Issei (first generation) of Yasuis became United States citizens. Five years later, in declining health, Masuo died by suicide at the age of 70; Shidzuyo passed away of natural causes three years after his death. The second generation of Yasuis, the Nisei, built successful careers as lawyers, doctors, teachers, and entrepreneurs. Minoru Yasui's experiences during World War II led him to a lifelong career as a civil rights activist, for which he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. His siblings were also active in civil rights causes and served as strong advocates for redress in the 1980s, and led organizations including the Japanese American Citizens League, the Nikkei Legacy Center, and the Min Yasui Legacy Project.

Sources: Lauren Kessler, Stubbon Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005); Densho Encyclopedia, "Minoru Yasui," 2020, https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Minoru%20Yasui

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Yasui Brothers records primarily document the business, personal, and community-related activities of the Yasui family in Hood River, Oregon, from the start of the 20th century until World War II, when they were among the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. government.

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and records relating to the business activities of Masuo Yasui (1886-1957). These include the general store, Yasui Bros., that he ran with his brother Renichi Fujimoto; and orchards in the Hood River Valley and surrounding areas that the firm operated. Store records include a variety of advertising materials, while farming records include packing lists, crop reports, and records of local farming associations Masuo Yasui was involved with. The collection also reflects Yasui's involvement in the local community, including his work assisting other Japanese immigrants to the United States. A small quantity of materials relates to the Yasui Bros. store's forced closure and the management of the family's property and assets while they were incarcerated during World War II.

The collection also includes personal papers of Masuo Yasui; his wife, Shidzuyo Yasui; his brother Renichi Fujimoto; and his children. These consist of correspondence, ephemera, and a personal history that Masuo Yasui wrote at the request of the Japanese consulate. Other materials in the collection include records from the 1970s and 1980s of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), in which Masuo Yasui's son Homer Yasui and his wife, Miyuki Yasui, were active, and magazines and newspapers the family received in both Japanese and English.

A substantial amount of this collection is in a pre-World War II Japanese script that is distinct from modern Japanese. Some of these materials, particularly those in Series 1 (Business correspondence and related materials) and Series 6 (Personal papers) have been reviewed and summarized by translators. Selected documents have been translated into English and modern Japanese and are viewable online in OHS Digital Collections. Selected English-language materials have also been digitized and are viewable online.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Alternative Forms Available

Selected documents are viewable online in OHS Digital Collections, including both English-language materials and Japanese-language materials that have been translated into English and modern Japanese.

Preferred Citation

Yasui Brothers business records, Mss 2949, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Restrictions on Use

The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The records are arranged into eight series:

  • Series 1: Business correspondence and related materials
    • Subseries 1.1: Masuo Yasui business, community, and personal correspondence
    • Subseries 1.2: Yasui Brothers business and community correspondence
    • Subseries 1.3: Correspondence regarding incarceration and liquidation of assets
    • Subseries 1.4: Incoming Yasui Brothers business correspondence
    • Subseries 1.5: Outgoing Yasui Brothers business correspondence
    • Subseries 1.6: General Yasui Brothers business correspondence
    • Subseries 1.7: Miscellaneous correspondence, holiday cards, forms, blanks, envelopes
  • Series 2: Yasui Brothers Company store materials
    • Subseries 2.1: Storefront signage, inventory, and ephemera
    • Subseries 2.2: Vendor and wholesaler catalogs
    • Subseries 2.3: Advertisements for wholesalers and products
  • Series 3: Farm and orchard records
    • Subseries 3.1: General records
    • Subseries 3.2: Records of specific farms by location
    • Subseries 3.3: Apple Growers Association (AGA) records
    • Subseries 3.4: Mid-Columbia Vegetable Growers (MCVG) records
  • Series 4: Financial records
    • Subseries 4.1: Incoming invoices to Yasui Brothers
    • Subseries 4.2: Outgoing invoices from Yasui Brothers
    • Subseries 4.3: Shipping records
    • Subseries 4.4: Customer account records
    • Subseries 4.5: General financial records
    • Subseries 4.6: Banking records and miscellaneous
  • Series 5: Other services, organizations, and community activities
    • Subseries 5.1: Employment and housing files
    • Subseries 5.2: Property and legal assistance files
    • Subseries 5.3: Steamship ticket agent records
    • Subseries 5.4: Japanese Savings Association files
    • Subseries 5.5: Japanese organization files
    • Subseries 5.6: Other organization files
    • Subseries 5.7: Fundraising and charity files
  • Series 6: Personal and family papers
    • Subseries 6.1: Issei papers: Masuo Yasui, Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui), and Shidzuyo Miyake Yasui materials
    • Subseries 6.2: Nisei papers: Kay Yasui materials
    • Subseries 6.3: Nisei papers: Michi, Minoru (Min), Ray "Chop" (Tsuyoshi), Roku, Yuka, and Yuki Yasui materials
    • Subseries 6.4: Other family paper and ephemera
  • Series 7: Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) files
  • Series 8: Publications
    • Subseries 8.1: Japanese language magazines
    • Subseries 8.2: Newspapers
    • Subseries 8.3: Other publications

Acquisition Information

Gift of Homer Yasui on behalf of the Yasui family, December 1991 (Lib. Acc. 20531).

Processing Note

Preliminary processing was performed by Kassidy Whetstone under the auspices of a 2022-2023 grant project; housing, arrangement, and description were finalized by Jeffrey Hayes and Dana Miller in 2023. Volunteer Misaka Sidahiro provided preliminary interpretation and sorting of many Japanese language materials in 1998, and the interpretation and translation necessary for processing of the collection were provided by Yoko Gulde, Naomi Diffely, and Mami Kikuchi, a team of language consultants who were hired for the 2022-2023 grant project.

In addition, some materials that are typically weeded during archival processing, such as canceled checks, have been retained in this collection in the event that they may represent the only available record of the presence and activities of some Japanese and Japanese American individuals in Hood River at that time. These materials can be found in Series 4, Financial records.

Related Materials

Additional collections at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library relating to the Yasui family include: the Yasui family papers, Coll 949; Masuo Yasui letter to Sagoro Asai, Coll 956; Bernard B. Kliks papers relating to Minoru Yasui and University of Oregon Law School reunions, Coll 920; oral history interviews with Randall B. Kester, SR1278 (1992) and SR 11093 (2005); and an interview with Homer Yasui and Jeff Uecker on Hotline/Golden Hours, SR 0946 (1992).

Related Materials

Collections relating to the the Yasui family that are held at other libraries include: R. Sims Collection on Minidoka and Japanese Americans, Mss 356, Boise State University Library Special Collections; interview with Japanese Americans in Utah, ACCN 1209, University of Utah Library Special Collections; Mike M. Masaoka papers, Mss 0656, University of Utah Library Special Collections; the Gordon K. Hirabayashi papers, Coll 3159, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections; and the Minoru Yasui papers, Archives and Special Collections, Auraria Library, Denver, Colorado.

More than 900 photographs of the Yasui family and store are available online in the Densho digital repository, https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259/

Separated Materials

Seven photographic prints were separated from Lib. Acc. 20531 to Org. Lot 907, the Yasui Bros. Co. photographs collection, at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. Over 1,200 objects from Lib. Acc. 20531 were separated to Oregon Historical Society Museum Collection 91-97, and are viewable online in the OHS Museum Portal, https://museumcollection.ohs.org.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1:  Business correspondence and related materials, 1909-1951Return to Top

19.55 cubic feet, (17 record cartons)

Especially rich in research potential, this main series of correspondence focuses on business matters, but its mixed contents reflect the wide range and interconnectedness of the Yasuis' business transactions, community activities, and personal relationships. The majority of correspondence is in pre-World War II Japanese, and folder contents have been reviewed and summarized by translators; where feasible, the focus of individual folders has been noted in the folder title.

The series is divided into seven subseries: Subseries 1.1, Masuo Yasui business, community, and personal correspondence; Subseries 1.2, Yasui Brothers business and community correspondence; Subseries 1.3, Correspondence and related materials regarding incarceration and liquidation of assets; Subseries 1.4, Incoming Yasui Brothers correspondence; Subseries 1.5, Outgoing Yasui Brothers correspondence; Subseries 1.6, General Yasui Brothers business correspondence; and Subseries 1.7, Miscellaneous. (Personal and family correspondence is located in Series 6.)

The more personal and community-oriented correspondence in this series is listed first and covers a broad variety of topics, including assistance that Masuo Yasui provided to fellow Japanese immigrants, concerns about anti-Japanese sentiment, and a small quantity of material regarding the sale of the store and management of the Yasui assets by Ray Yasui during the family's incarceration. Later subseries are more strictly business-related, consisting of correspondence between the Yasui Bros. Co. and its wholesalers, vendors, and customers. With the exception of correspondence about or during incarceration, business correspondence in this series roughly spans the period from the early dates of operation of the Yasui Brothers businesses to approximately a decade after their closing (1909-1951).

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1.1: Masuo Yasui business, community, and personal correspondence
Subseries 1.1 contains materials easily identifiable as being specifically to or from Masuo Yasui and includes slightly more personal material than other subseries; it is almost entirely in Japanese and spans the years of his Hood River business operations.
circa 1910-1941
Box Folder
1 1
Masuo Yasui outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1919
1 2
Masuo Yasui incoming letter from Kiuchi (in Japanese)
1915
1 3-5
Masuo Yasui outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1915
1 6-7
Masuo Yasui outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1916
1 8-9
Masuo Yasui outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1917
1 10-11
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing correspondence (in Japanese)
1917
20 1
Masuo Yasui business correspondence (in Japanese)
1918-1926; undated
1 12
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and personal correspondence (in Japanese)
1919
1 13-14
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1920
1 15
Masuo Yasui outgoing business correspondence to Mr. Mizutani (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1929
1 16
Masuo Yasui incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1921-1922
1 17-20
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1922
21 1
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter of resignation from Masuo Yasui to the Japan-America Formal Society of Hood River, 28 November 1928.
1922-1930
1 21
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
An item from this folder is viewable online: letter from Mantaro Kuga to Masuo Yasui, 1923, with translations in English and modern Japanese.
1923
1 22
Masuo Yasui outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1923
1 23-24
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
Two items in Box 1, Folder 23, and one item in Box 1, Folder 24, are viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese. In Box 1, Folder 23: a schedule of strawberry cultivation costs and income and expenditure, 1919-1924, and a letter from the Japanese Association of Oregon to Masuo Yasui. In Box 1, Folder 24: a letter from Motoki Ishikawa to Masuo Yasui, 16 August 1924.
1924-1925
1 25
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and personal correspondence (in Japanese)
1925
2 1
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business correspondence from Japan (in Japanese)
1925-1932
2 2
Masuo Yasui incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1926
2 3-4
Masuo Yasui outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1926-1927
2 5
Masuo Yasui incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1926-1927
2 6
Masuo Yasui and Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Renichi Fujimoto to Masuo Yasui, 18 July 1927.
1927
2 7-8
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
Two items in Box 2, Folder 8, are viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: a letter from Masuo Yasui to Renichi Fujimoto and a letter from Yorisada Matsui to Masuo Yasui, 8 March 1927.
1927-1928
2 9-10
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and personal correspondence (in Japanese)
1927-1928
2 11-12
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in Box 2, Folder 12, is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from the Consulate of Japan in Portland to Masuo Yasui, 17 November 1930.
1928-1930
2 13
Masuo Yasui incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1931-1932
2 14-15
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1931-1932
2 16
Business letter from Mr. Miwa to Masuo Yasui about new breed of apple (in Japanese)
1935 October 11
2 17
Masuo Yasui incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1935 March 5
2 18
Masuo Yasui business, personal, and community correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1940-1941
Subseries 1.2: Yasui Brothers business and community correspondence
Almost exclusively in Japanese, Subseries 1.2 reflects the activities of the Yasuis and the supportive services they offered to the Japanese American community in Hood River and wider Oregon.
1911-1941
Box Folder
2 19
Business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1911
21 2
Business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1911-1928
2 20-21
Community business correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1914-1939
2 22
Incoming thank you letters for arranging trips (in Japanese)
1914-1915
2 23
community business correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1914-1939
3 1-4
Incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1915
3 5-7
Incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in Box 3, Folder 7, is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Draft letter by Masuo Yasui to Japanese Consul in response to withdrawal of anti-Japanese legislation, 1917 March 2
1916-1917
3 8
Community event ephemera and correspondence (in Japanese)
1916-1939
3 9
Business and community correspondence, forms (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Application for a Certificate of Residence for Johei Okazaki, November 1916
1916-1917
3 10-11
Incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1917-1918
3 12
Incoming community correspondence (in Japanese)
Items in this folder are viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Two letters from Tadashi Kinoshita to Masuo Yasui, 1918.
1918
3 13-15
Incoming and outgoing community correspondence (in Japanese)
An item from Box 3, Folder 14, and an item from Box 3, Folder 15, are viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese. From Box 3, Folder 14: a letter from Masuo Yasui to Yoshichika Kataoka, 9 April 1921. From Box 3, Folder 15: a letter from Masuo Yasui to Junzaburo Hiraiwa, 27 July 1921.
1918-1921
3 16-18
Incoming and outgoing community correspondence (in Japanese)
1921
3 19
Incoming community correspondence (in Japanese), some mention of anti-Japanese sentiment
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Suekichi Ishikawa to Yasui Brothers Co., April 1921.
1921
3 20
Community movement and fundraising lists and correspondence (in Japanese)
1921-1922
3 21
Incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Miyake to Tokujiro Yasui and immigration status report, circa 1922.
1921-1922
3 22-23
Incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
Two items from Box 3, Folder 23 are viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: a letter from Jotaro Shido to Yasui brothers and a letter from Umeshichi Oda to Masuo Yasui, circa 1924.
1924
3 24
Incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1926
4 1
Incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1926
4 2
Community holiday correspondence and ephemera (in Japanese)
1926-1941
4 3
Incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1928
4 4-5
Incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1928-1929
4 6
Incoming correspondence and contributor lists for Japanese relief efforts (in English and Japanese)
1929
4 7
Japanese American community correspondence and ephemera (in Japanese)
1930-1939
4 8
Community correspondence and flyers (in English)
1930-1939
4 9
Incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1930
4 10
Incoming business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1930
4 11
Incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1930-1931
4 12
Incoming and outgoing business, community, and personal letters (in Japanese)
1931-1933
4 13
Incoming and outgoing business, community, and personal letters (in Japanese)
1931-1933
4 14
Incoming community correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1931-1933
4 15-16
Incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
1934
4 17-19
Incoming and outgoing business and community correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in Box 4, Folder 17, is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter announcing Masuo Yasui's reelection to the Hood River Apple Growers Association board of directors.
1935
4 20-21
Incoming and outgoing community correspondence (in Japanese)
1936
4 22
Incoming community correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Kunitaka Onishi to Masuo Yasui.
1937-1938
4 23-24
Incoming and outgoing community correspondence (in Japanese)
1938-1940
4 25
Forms from the Japanese government (in Japanese)
1912-1926
Subseries 1.3: Correspondence regarding incarceration and liquidation of assets
Subseries 1.3 highlights the closure and sale of the Yasui Bros. Co. store, Ray Yasui's dealings with various government and business entities regarding the family's properties and assets, and Ernest C. Smith's protection of some of the Yasuis' belongings and communication with them during their incarceration. These materials are mostly in English and cover the years 1942-1946.
1942-1946
Box Folder
5 1
Mid-Columbia Vegetable Growers Association bulletin regarding forced removal (in English)
1942 April 9
5 2
Bulletin announcing Yasui Brothers forced liquidation sale (in English and Japanese)
1942
5 3
Business correspondence about forced evacuation; final store accounts (in English)
1942
5 4 1942
5 5
Correspondence between Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) and Ernest C. Smith about store property (in English)
1943
5 6
Fire insurance forms (in English)
1943-1944
5 7
Correspondence between Ray Yasui, Ernest C. Smith, and others regarding sale of Yasui properties (in English)
1944
5 8 1944
5 9
Ray Yasui correspondence about incarceration and status of Yasui properties, including with War Relocation Authority (in English)
1944
5 10
Ray Yasui correspondence about status of Yasui properties, including with War Relocation Authority (in English)
1945
5 11
Correspondence between Alien Property Custodian, Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui), and Ray Yasui regarding demand for payment to a Pacific Trading Company account (in English)
1945 July-August
5 12
Ray Yasui correspondence, including about Masuo Yasui's release from incarceration and property deeds (in English)
1945-1946
Subseries 1.4: Incoming Yasui Brothers business correspondence
Mainly in Japanese, Subseries 1.4 covers straightforward business topics such as vendor negotiations, wholesale orders, accounts, and payments.
1909-1942
Box Folder
5 13
Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1909; 1930
21 3
Incoming business correspondence to Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) and to Yasui Brothers (in Japanese)
1909-1915
5 14
Incoming business correspondence, holiday cards (in English)
circa 1910-1919
5 15
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1910
5 16 1911-1913
5 17
Incoming business correspondence to and on behalf of Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1911-1914
5 18-19
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1911-1941
5 20
Incoming business correspondence from various corporations (in Japanese)
1913-1915
5 21-24
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1914-1939
5 25-26
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1915
5 27-30
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1915
6 1-4
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1915
6 5-6
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1915-1916
6 7-9
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in Box 6, Folder 7, is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Kichizo Noji to Masuo Yasui, 30 April 1916.
1916
6 10
Incoming business correspondence from Furuya Co. (in Japanese)
1917
6 11
Incoming banking business correspondence (in Japanese)
1918-1919
6 12-13
Incoming business correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1919
6 14
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1919
6 15-17
Incoming business correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1919
6 18
Incoming business correspondence and holiday cards (in English)
circa 1920-1929
6 19
Incoming shipping correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1920
21 4
Incoming shipping correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1920
6 20-21
Incoming business correspondence from trading companies (in Japanese)
1920
6 22-23
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese), some mention of anti-Japanese sentiment
1920
6 24-25
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
An item in Box 6, Folder 24, is viewable online: Letter from K. Tyler to Masuo Yasui, 13 February 1920.
1920
7 1
Incoming financial and business correspondence (in English)
1920
7 2
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1920
7 3-6
Compiled incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1921
7 7-9
Compiled incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1922
7 10
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1922
7 11-12
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1923
7 13
Incoming business correspondence and season's greetings (in Japanese)
1923
7 14
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1924
7 15-18
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1924
7 19
Incoming business correspondence, organizational records (in Japanese)
1924
8 1
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1924-1925
8 2
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1925
8 3
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1925
8 4
Incoming business correspondence, advertisements, season's greetings (in Japanese)
1925
8 5
Incoming business correspondence from trading companies, including Pacific Trading Company, North Coast Importing Company, and R. Kohara & Co. (in Japanese)
1925
8 6
Incoming business correspondence from various organizations, including Oregon Life, the Oregon News, Japanese Association of Oregon, and American Produce Company (in Japanese)
1925-1931
8 7
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1926
8 8-10
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1926
8 11
Incoming business correspondence from Pacific Trading Co. (in Japanese)
1926
8 12
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1927
8 13
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1927
8 14
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1927
8 15
Incoming business correspondence and advertisements (in English)
1927
8 16
Incoming business correspondence and advertisements (in Japanese)
1927
8 17
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1927-1928
8 18-19
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1927-1929
8 20-22
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1928
8 23-24
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1928
8 25
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1929
9 1
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1929
9 2-3
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1929-1930
9 4
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1929-1941
9 5
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1930
9 6-7
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1931-1932
9 8-9
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1932
9 10
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1932
9 11
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1933
9 12
Incoming business correspondence (Japanese and English)
1933
9 13
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1933
9 14-16
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1933
9 17-19
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1933-1934
9 20
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1934
10 1-2
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1934
10 3-5
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1935
10 6
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1935-1936
10 7-8
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1935-1936
10 9
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1936
10 10
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1936
10 11-13
Incoming compiled business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1936-1938
10 14
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1937
10 15-16
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1937
10 17
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1938
10 18
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1938
10 19
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1938
10 20-23
Incoming compiled business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1939-1942
10 24
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1939-1941
11 1
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1940
11 2
Incoming business correspondence (in Japanese)
1941
11 3
Incoming business correspondence (in English)
1942
11 4
Incoming business notes and correspondence (in Japanese)
undated
Subseries 1.5: Outgoing Yasui Brothers business correspondence
Entirely in Japanese, Subseries 1.5 consists of a small amount of outgoing correspondence from Yasui Brothers. It includes letters by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui), orders, and discussions of financial topics and store inventories.
circa 1910-1935
Box Folder
11 5
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1919
11 6
Outgoing business and financial correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1911-1914
11 7-8
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1915
11 9-11
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1916
11 12
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Masuo Yasui to Kanesan[?] Shokai, 10 February 1917.
1917
11 13-15
Compiled outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1919-1921
11 16
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1919; 1926
11 17-18
Outgoing business order correspondence (in Japanese), primarily from Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui)
1922
11 19-22
Compiled outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1923-1925
11 23
Outgoing business correspondence, store inventories, and transaction records (in Japanese)
1924-1925
11 24
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1925-1926
12 1-4
Outgoing compiled business correspondence (in Japanese)
1926-1928
12 5
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1929-1930
12 6
Outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1933
12 7
Outgoing letter drafts (in Japanese)
1934
12 8
Outgoing business and personal correspondence from Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in Japanese)
circa 1922-1935
Subseries 1.6: General Yasui Brothers business correspondence
Documents in Subseries 1.6 are a mix of incoming and outgoing correspondence, and are evenly balanced between English and Japanese. The content of correspondence in this subseries is less specific in nature, though specific topics and correspondents have been identified as much as feasible in folder titles.
circa 1910-1951
Box Folder
12 9
Business correspondence and land receipts (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1916
12 10
Business correspondence and financial notes (in Japanese)
1910-1911
12 11
Business correspondence and invoices to and from other individuals and organizations (in Japanese)
1913-1915
12 12
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1914
12 13
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1915
12 14-15
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1915
12 16
Letter register with English and Japanese names (in English)
1916-1922
12 17
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence and letter drafts (in Japanese)
1916
12 18-19
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1916
21 5
Business correspondence; business correspondence from the Bank of Tokyo (in English)
circa 1916-1920; 1951
12 20-21
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
An item in Box 12, Folder 20, is viewable online: Letter from Barbara Bailey to Masuo Yasui, 26 March 1917.
1917
12 22-23
Incoming and outgoing correspondence (in Japanese)
1918
12 24
Incoming and outgoing correspondence (in English)
1918
13 1-3
Incoming and outgoing correspondence (in English)
1918
13 4
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence, forms (in Japanese)
1918
13 5
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence and invoices (in Japanese)
1918
13 6-7
Business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1918
13 8
Business correspondence and account statements between Yasui Bros. and J. Hirata (in Japanese)
1918-1921
13 9-16
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1919
13 17
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence, primarily with Butler Banking (in English)
1919-1921
13 18
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1920-1929
13 19-20
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1920
13 21
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1920
14 1
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1920
14 2
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1920
14 3
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1921
14 4
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence, primarily with Butler Banking (English and Japanese)
1921
14 5
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1922
14 6
Compiled incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1922
14 7
Compiled incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1922
14 8
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence regarding order shipments and account balances (in English)
1924
14 9
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1924
14 10-12
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
An item in Box 14, Folder 10, is viewable online: Letter from Fred Barker to Yasui Brothers, 14 September 1925.
1925
14 13
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1926
14 14
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1926
14 15-17
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1926
14 18
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1927
14 19
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1927
15 1-2
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1929-1930
15 3
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese and English)
1931
15 4
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1931
15 5
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1932
15 6-7
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1932-1933
15 8
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1934
15 9
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1934
15 10
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1935
15 11
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1936
15 12
Assorted business notes, correspondence drafts (in Japanese and English)
1936-1940
15 13-14
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1937
15 15-16
Business correspondence between Yasui Bros. and Sennichi Tomihiro about mortgage (in Japanese)
1937
15 17
Incoming and outgoing equipment repair correspondence (in English)
1937
15 18
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1937-1941
15 19
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1938
16 1
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1938
16 2-3
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1939
16 4
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1940
16 5
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in Japanese)
1940
16 6-7
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1940
16 8-9
Incoming and outgoing business correspondence (in English)
1941
16 10
Incoming and outgoing miscellaneous business correspondence (in Japanese)
undated
16 11
Business correspondence and item shipment lists (in Japanese)
undated
Subseries 1.7: Miscellaneous correspondence, holiday cards, forms, blanks, envelopes
This final portion of the main correspondence series is mostly in Japanese and showcases Japanese-style holiday cards and New Year's greetings, artifactual Yasui Bros. business stationery such as forms and envelopes, and a selection of common government forms from the Japanese Consulate of Portland's frequent consultation with Masuo Yasui.
1914-1941
Box Folder
16 12
Incoming holiday cards (in Japanese)
1914
16 13
Incoming holiday cards (in Japanese)
1914-1915
16 14-15
Incoming holiday cards (in Japanese)
1915-1916
16 16
Incoming New Year's greeting cards (in Japanese)
1916
16 17-18
Incoming holiday cards (in Japanese)
1916
16 19
Incoming New Year's greeting cards (in Japanese)
1916-1926
17 1
Incoming postcards (in Japanese)
1916-1936
17 2
Incoming greeting cards and invitations (in Japanese)
1917
17 3
Incoming holiday greeting cards (Japanese)
1917
17 4
Incoming New Year's greeting cards (in Japanese)
1918
17 5
Incoming New Year's greeting cards (in Japanese)
1919
17 6
Holiday correspondence (in Japanese)
1929
17 7-8
Incoming New Year's greeting cards (in Japanese)
1931
17 9
Incoming New Year's and miscellaneous postcards (in Japanese)
1932-1936
17 10
Incoming New Year's greeting cards (in Japanese)
1937-1938
17 11
Incoming New Year's postcard, single (in Japanese)
1941
17 12
Incoming New Year's greeting cards (in Japanese)
undated
17 13-16
Business notes, memos and reminders from Yasui Brothers (in Japanese)
undated
17 17
Envelopes and correspondence for farewell gift money (in Japanese)
undated
17 18
Assorted cards and envelopes (in Japanese)
undated
17 19
Assorted Yasui Brothers stationery, envelopes, mailers, coupons (in English and Japanese)
undated
17 20
Yasui Brothers envelopes (empty; in Japanese)
undated
17 21
Assorted forms (in Japanese) - Yasui Bros. order form; money transfer form; agreement form to give up Japanese citizenship
1919-1922
17 22
Assorted blank forms (in Japanese)
1921-1937; undated
17 23-27
Assorted blank forms (in Japanese) primarily from Japanese Consulate
undated

Series 2:  Yasui Brothers Company store materials, circa 1908-1945Return to Top

16.5 cubic feet, (8 record cartons; 2 card file boxes; 1 flat box; 9 oversize flat boxes; 7 oversize folders)

Materials from the Yasui Bros. store include storefront items such as hand-painted signage for sales and products, inventory records, and ephemera. The ephemera includes stationery, price lists, and a variety of Yasui Bros. advertising materials, such as coupons, mailers, and wall calendars. Wholesaler catalogs and vendor price lists and advertisements are also included. There is more English than Japanese in this category and materials span the dates of operation of the store, 1908-1941, with some wholesaler material dated 1945.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 2.1: Storefront signage, inventory, and ephemera
circa 1909-circa 1941; undated
Box Folder
18 1
Stationery, business cards, labels, tags, and stencil (in English)
circa 1910-1939
18 2
Business cards, direct mailers, labels, and envelopes (in Japanese)
Two items in this folder are viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: a Yasui Bros. Co. advertisement relating to goods and services, and a Yasui Bros. Co. advertisement relating to discounts.
undated
18 3
Blank account statement stationery pad (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1919
18 4
M. Niguma store blank invoice forms and labels (in English)
circa 1909-1910
22 1
M. Niguma Co. store printed wrapping (in English)
circa 1910
18 5
Price lists (in Japanese and English)
circa 1922-1923; undated
18 6
Order books for rice and fish; assorted price lists (in Japanese and English)
circa 1934-1940
18 7
Order forms and price lists (in Japanese)
undated
18 8
Price lists from Yasui Brothers and other firms (in Japanese)
undated
18 9
Assorted noshi, decorative gift enclosures, tags, and labels (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1930
18 10
Sanitary inspection from Oregon Dairy and Food Commission (in English)
1922
18 11
Flour rationing forms (in English)
circa 1910-1929
18 12
U.S. Food Administration food rationing instructions to grocers (in English)
1918
18 33
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1910
18 34
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1916
18 35
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1916-1917
27 1
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1917-1918
27 2
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1918-1919
27 3
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1919
27 4
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1921
27 5
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1922-1923
27 6
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1923
27 7
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1924-1925
27 8
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
1927
27 9
Store inventory ledger (in English)
1930
27 10
Store inventory ledgers (in Japanese)
undated
27 11
Store fixture inventory (in Japanese); upstairs apartments inventory (in Japanese)
circa 1925
18 13-14
Hand-painted signs and labels (in Japanese)
undated
18 15
Labels for Japanese canned goods; noshi (gift tags) (in Japanese)
undated
18 16
Small signs for Japanese rice, tea, noodles, and other products (in English)
undated
18 17
General storefront signs (in English)
undated
18 18
"Packers wanted" storefront sign (in English)
An item in this folder is viewable online: "Packers Wanted" sign from the Yasui Brothers store.
undated
18 19
American Express money order signs; ephemera (in English)
undated
18 20
Assorted raffle tickets (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1929
18 21
Doll-naming contest punch cards (in English)
undated
21 6
Sign for doll-naming contest (in English)
undated
18 22
Hood River Chamber of Commerce no solicitation signs (in English)
undated
20 2
Hand-painted merchandise signs (in Japanese)
undated
20 4
Handmade store sign (in Japanese); decorative stamped Japanese characters for "cherry" and "chrysanthemum"
undated
20 5
Handpainted signs of poems by an unidentified author (in Japanese)
undated
21 7
Storefront money order signs (in English)
undated
21 8
Hand-lettered storefront signs for tooth powder; "wet paint" signs (in English)
undated
21 9-11
Storefront signs for holiday season sales (in English)
undated
21 12-15
Decorative holiday greeting signs (in English)
Two items from Box 21, Folder 13, are viewable online: a storefront holiday sign advertising gifts, and a storefront holiday sign advertising evening hours.
undated
22 2
Handpainted sale/specials sign (in English)
undated
22 3
Advertisement template for Yasui Bros. price list for use each year (in Japanese)
undated
22 4
Advertising posters for Yasui Bros. New Year's sales (in Japanese)
1926, 1935; undated
22 5
Information and handmade chart for raffle ticket sales (in Japanese)
undated
18 23
Advertising cards for products (in Japanese)
undated
18 24
Advertisements for Japanese food products (in Japanese)
undated
18 25
New merchandise, sales, and raffle advertisements for Yasui Bros. store (in Japanese)
undated
18 26
Advertisement development drafts for Yasui Bros. store (in Japanese)
circa 1921
18 27
Advertisement for Yasui Bros. store (in Japanese)
1914 and circa 1925-1927
18 28
Advertisement for Yasui Bros. store (in Japanese)
1928
18 29
Advertisements and mailers for Yasui Bros. store (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1929
18 30
Yasui Bros. mailer envelopes with coupons (in Japanese)
undated
18 31-32
Assorted Yasui Bros. advertisements (in Japanese)
undated
19 4
Postcards advertising "mammoth" Hood River fruits and vegetables on railroad cars (in English)
1910
19 5-6
Yasui Bros. store advertising cards (in Japanese)
undated
19 7
Advertising "blotter" cards for Yasui Brothers store and for wholesale products they sold (primarily in Japanese)
circa 1913-1919
20 3
Yasui Bros. illustrated wall calendars for 1926, 1934, and unknown year (in English)
An item in this folder is viewable online: Yasui Brothers Company General Merchandise wall calendar, 1934.
circa 1925-1933
23
Yasui Bros. hanging wall calendar backings (no year) (in English)
An item in this box is viewable online: Yasui Brothers Co. painted wall hanging
undated
24
Yasui Bros. hanging wall calendar backings (no year) (in English)
undated
25
Yasui Bros. hanging wall calendar backings (no year) (in English)
undated
26
Yasui Bros. hanging wall calendars for 1942 (in English)
An item in this box is viewable online: Yasui Brothers Co. painted wall hanging calendar for 1942.
circa 1941
Folder
19 8
Advertising "blotter" cards for wholesaler products (primarily in Japanese)
circa 1913-1919
19 9-14
Assorted business cards, mostly from the Pacific Northwest region (in English)
undated
19 15-16
Wholesaler coupons for merchandise and giveaways (in English)
circa 1913-1915
19 17
Seals for Kikkoman soy sauce (in English)
undated
22 8
Color poster advertising "wise" candy (in Japanese); posters advertising pears (in English)
An item in this folder is viewable online: Washington-Oregon Anjou pear advertisement.
undated
22 9
Hanging calendar for Pacific Trading Company for 1928 (in English) with related list of names and addresses (in Japanese); K. Maki Company hanging calendar for 1928 (in English)
circa 1927
20 6
Unidentified advertising poster, possibly for a product for babies (3 copies)
undated
22 6
Posters of handcolored photographs of Japan
circa 1925
22 7
Event posters for wrestling match (in English) and for film screening (in Japanese)
undated
Folder
Oversize 1
Japanese-style nature imagery posters; hand-painted calligraphy sign (in Japanese)
undated
Oversize 7
Poster for Japanese silent film (in Japanese)
undated
Box Folder
19 1
Desk calendar (in English) with annotations in Japanese
1913
19 2
Desk calendar (in English) with annotations in Japanese
1917
19 3
Desk calendar (in English) with annotations in Japanese
1919
27 12
Handbook for operating a Burroughs adding machine (in English)
1929
27 13
Assorted product manuals (in English)
circa 1910-1930
27 14
Miscellaneous memo books (in English)
1936-1937
Subseries 2.2: Vendor and wholesaler catalogs
circa 1908-1941
Box Folder
27 15
Ledger with names and addresses of vendors (in Japanese and English)
circa 1920
27 16
List of vendor names (in English)
circa 1922
27 17
Wholesale account ledger (in English)
1936
27 18
Bennett Brothers Blue Book catalog (in English)
1939
27 19
J. M. Bennett catalog (in English)
circa 1920
28 1
Blumauer-Frank Drug Company catalog (in English)
circa 1920
28 2
Butler Brothers catalog (in English)
1928 February
28 3-5
Butler Brothers catalogs (in English)
1929 September-November
28 6-11
Butler Brothers catalogs (in English)
1930 March-July
32 1
Marshall Field & Company catalog (in English)
circa 1925
32 2
William L. Gilbert Clock Company catalogs (in English)
circa 1920-1929
28 12
J. K. Gill Company catalogs (in English)
circa 1910-1929
28 13
Gill Brothers Seed Company catalogs (in English)
1926-1927; 1937
28 14
Gill's Wholesale catalog (in English)
circa 1935
28 15
Grocers Co-Operator catalogs (in English)
1928-1929
28 16-17
Assorted hat and footwear sales catalogs (in English)
circa 1915-1929
28 18-19
Hirsch-Weis Manufacturing Company catalogs (in English)
1927-1929
28 20
Hirsch-Weis Manufacturing Company catalogs (in English)
1937-1938
29 1
Hollister Seed Company catalogs (in English)
1929; 1931
29 2
Hollister Seed Company catalogs (in English)
1936; 1939
29 3
Hollister Seed Company catalog (in English)
1941
29 4
Lilly's seed and crop catalogs (in English)
1923; 1925
29 5-6
Mason, Ehrman, & Company catalogs (in English)
1923-1925
33 1-2
Assorted men's fashion sales catalogs (in English)
1916-1918
32 3
Robert Morris, Inc. Furs catalog and related correspondence (in English)
1941
29 7
New World Sun catalog (in Japanese)
1936
29 8-10
Oriental Seeds catalogs (in Japanese)
1922-1941
29 11
Pacific Coast Jewelers catalog (in English)
1916
29 12
Portland Seed Company catalogs (in English)
1925 and 1927
29 13
Portland Seed Company catalogs (in English)
1929
29 14
Assorted rubber stamp sales catalogs (in English)
circa 1930-1939
32 4-5
Carson Pirie Scott & Company furniture catalogs (in English)
1929-1930
29 15
M. Seller & Company catalog (in English)
circa 1920
29 16
Taiso-Do catalogs (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1939
29 17-18
Victor Records and Stein Brothers catalogs (in English)
1923
29 19
Western States Grocery Company catalogs (in English)
1927-1931
29 20
Western States Grocery Company catalogs (in English)
1934; 1936
30 1-21
Assorted sales catalogs (in English)
circa 1910-1941
30 22
Assorted sales catalogs (in Japanese)
circa 1908-1941
31 1-9
Assorted sales catalogs (in Japanese)
circa 1908-1941
Subseries 2.3: Advertisements for wholesalers and products
circa 1910-1945
Box Folder
31 10-11
Wholesaler advertisements (in Japanese and English)
circa 1910-1919
31 12
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
circa 1910-1919
31 13
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
circa 1914-1919
31 14
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
circa 1914-1930
31 15
Wholesaler advertisements and price lists (in Japanese and English)
1916
31 16
Advertisements, price lists, and newsletters for Pacific Trading Company (in Japanese)
1916; 1926-1927
31 17
Assorted wholesale advertisements for California-based firms (in English)
circa 1918-1936
33 3
Wholesaler advertisements for needlepoint patterns (in Japanese)
1930 September-October
33 4
Wholesaler advertisement for postage (in Japanese)
undated
33 5
Wholesaler advertisements, price lists, and catalogs for book publishers (in Japanese)
1912, 1924-1928, 1945
34 1
Hand-painted poster made by Yasui Brothers advertising for goods from Pacific Trading Company (in Japanese); Pacific Trading Company order form (in Japanese)
1925
34 2
Wholesaler advertisements and price lists for specific products (in Japanese)
circa 1914-1939
34 3
Advertisements, price lists, and newsletters from identified wholesalers (in Japanese)
circa 1914-1939
34 4
Advertisements, price lists, and catalogs from unidentified wholesalers (in Japanese)
circa 1915-1940
34 5
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
undated
35
Advertising cards and price lists from wholesalers in Los Angeles, California; Portland, Oregon; and Yokohama, Japan (in Japanese; 12 items)
undated
35
Advertising cards and price lists from wholesalers in Seattle, Washington (in Japanese; approximately 70 items)
circa 1930-1939
35
Advertising cards and price lists from unidentified wholesalers (in Japanese; approximately 100 items)
undated
Folder
36 1-2
Wholesale advertisements (in Japanese and English)
1920
36 3
Assorted wholesaler advertisements and order forms (in English)
circa 1920
36 4
Wholesaler advertisements (in Japanese)
circa 1921-1922
36 5-6
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
circa 1920-1929
36 7
Wholesaler advertisements and price lists (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1929
36 8
Wholesaler advertisements and related correspondence (in English)
1922
36 9
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1923-1924
36 10
Wholesaler and service advertisements (in English)
1924
36 11
Wholesaler advertisements (in Japanese)
1924
36 12
Sales price lists for Yasui Brothers and other stores (in Japanese)
1924-1925
36 13
Business advertisements and sales lists (in Japanese)
circa 1924-1938
36 14
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1925
36 15
Wholesaler advertisements and price lists (in Japanese)
circa 1925-1927
36 16
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1926
36 17
Advertisements for M. Nishimoto & Co. (in Japanese)
1926
36 18
Assorted incoming advertisements (in Japanese)
circa 1926
36 19
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
1926-1939
36 20
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1927
36 21
Business advertisements and flyers, including for competitors to Yasui Brothers (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Teikoku Shokai's Japanese and U.S. General Merchandise Grocery list of new arrivals.
1927-1928
36 22
Business price lists and order forms (in Japanese)
1927-1928
36 23
Wholesaler advertisements and price lists (in Japanese and English)
circa 1928
36 24
Wholesaler advertisements and price lists (in Japanese and English)
circa 1928; undated
36 25
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1928-1929
37 1
Blue Goose/American Fruit Growers, Inc. wholesale advertisements (in English)
1929
37 2
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
1929; undated
37 3
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
circa 1930-1939
37 4
Assorted sales advertisements and correspondence (in English)
1934-1937
37 5
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1936
37 6
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1938
37 7
Assorted sales advertisements and correspondence (in English)
1939
37 8
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1940
37 9
Assorted sales advertisements (in English)
1941
37 10-12
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
undated
37 13-27
Wholesaler advertisements, price lists, catalogs, and order forms (in Japanese)
undated
Folder
Oversize 2
Wholesaler and product posters (in English and Japanese)
undated
Oversize 3
Wholesaler posters advertising products and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (in Japanese)
circa 1915
Oversize 4
M. Furuya & Company wall calendar for 1927 (in English); M. Nishimoto & Company wall calendar for 1928
circa 1926-1927
Oversize 5
Advertisements, price lists, and newsletters from unidentified wholesalers (in Japanese)
undated
Oversize 6
Wholesaler advertisements (in English)
undated

Series 3:  Farm and orchard records, 1908-1947Return to Top

17.54 cubic feet, (15 record cartons, 1 flat box)

The Farm series documents the farms and orchards owned or operated by the Yasui Brothers company. General farm files (Subseries 3.1), provide evidence of operations, land transactions and management, and the labor and payment of harvesters and packers. Subseries 3.2 consists of records from specific Yasui farms and orchards in Hood River Valley locations such as Dee, Mosier, Pine Grove, and Willow Flat. These records document the production and distribution of crops such as strawberries, asparagus, apples, and pears throughout Oregon and the United States. Subseries 3.3 and Subseries 3.4 contain administrative records, correspondence, packing logs, and financial records related to the Apple Growers Association (AGA), for which Masuo Yasui served on the board of directors, and the Mid-Columbia Vegetable Growers (MCVG), an organization he started. This series' contents are in English and cover the years 1908-1947. Wherever possible, original ledger or folder names have been preserved within the current container list for Farm and orchard records.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 3.1: General records
1910-1941
Box Folder
38 1
Oregon Apple Company correspondence, customer account statements, invoices
1911
38 2
Land purchase correspondence to Yasui Brothers
1919
38 3-4
Compiled land purchase correspondence to Yasui Brothers
1919
38 5-6
Yasui Brothers incoming and outgoing land correspondence
1923
38 7
Farm correspondence and financial statements
1923-1941
38 8
Farming correspondence to Yasui Brothers
1924
38 9-10
Farming correspondence to and from Yasui Brothers
1925
38 11
Farming correspondence to and from Yasui Brothers
1926
38 12
Farming correspondence to Yasui Brothers
1934
38 13-14
Farming correspondence to Yasui Brothers
1935
38 15
Tamura & Yasui (includes some Apple Growers Association records) correspondence and invoices
1937-1939
38 16
Notebooks
circa 1930-1940
38 17
U.S. Department of Agriculture Summary of Oregon State Commercial Truck Crops
1934
38 18-19
Kay Yamahiro and Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. invoices
1924-1930
39 1
Kay Yamahiro produce invoices to Yasui Brothers
1925-1927, 1936
39 2-3
Produce invoices
1926
39 4
Produce sales invoices to Yasui Brothers
1926-1927
39 5
Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. Distributors invoices to Yasui Brothers
1927
39 6
Produce sales invoices to Yasui Brothers
1928
39 7
Kay Yamahiro and Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. invoices to Yasui Brothers
1928
39 8
Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. Distributors invoices to Yasui Brothers
1929
39 9-10
Compiled produce sales invoices to Yasui Brothers
1929-1932
39 11
Produce sales invoices to Yasui Brothers
1930-1931
39 12
2-Y Produce sales invoices to Yasui Brothers
1932
39 13
Produce invoices to Yasui Brothers
1933
39 14
S. M. Yorizane and Ray-Mailing Co. invoices to Yasui Brothers
1933
39 15
Sales statements to and from Yasui Brothers
1933
39 16-18
Compiled sales invoices to and from Yasui Brothers
1934
40 1
Payment ledger
1910-1922
40 2
Farm harvesting labor ledger
1919-1920
40 3-4
Land transactions ledger and accompanying correspondence and receipts
1919-1922
40 5
Land transactions ledger, invoices, and accompanying receipts
1919-1924
40 6
Farm time vouchers, employee wage statements, expense reports, legal correspondence and court proceedings
1919-1941
40 7
Fruit crop profit calculations for years 1920-1928
1932
40 8
Strawberry crop picking statement
1921
40 9
Yasui Brothers ledger with farm notes
1922
40 10
East Hood River Company fruit ledger
1923
40 11
Assorted farm invoices
1922-1936
40 12
Packing invoices
1936
40 13
Pear orchard accounting ledger
1923-1927
40 14
Mosier Fruit Growers Association invoices
1923-1941
40 15
Pear accounting statements
1924-1926
40 16
Farm operations files: agency correspondence, sales invoices, pickers tickets
1924-1939
40 17
Assorted farm operations records
1926-1941
40 18
Farm sales receipt books
1927, 1937
40 19
Viento Farm rent receipt book from Yasui Brothers
1929-1932
40 20
Yasui Brothers farm activity logs
1932-1935
40 21
Yasui farm supplies received log
1934-1938
40 22
Activity log
1935-1936
40 23
Customer account statements
1937
41 1
Customer account statements
1937
41 2-7
Farm sales receipt books
1937
41 8
Packing ledgers
1937-1938
41 9
Pear picking ledger
1937-1941
41 10
Time and wages log
1937
41 11
Assorted farm invoices and time sheets
1941
22 10
Map of irrigation pipe placement; blueprints for pump, possibly for irrigation, and related letter
1916, 1923
41 12
House Bill No. 162 agricultural legislation
1941
41 13
Mosier Fruit Growers Association proxy form template
1919-1940
41 14
Japanese Farmers Association strawberry crop report, handwritten (in English)
1921
41 15-17
Agricultural reports and manuals
1920-1939
Subseries 3.2: Records of specific farms by location
1908-1941
Box Folder
41 18
Incoming invoices to Dee farm
1914
41 19
Dee farm outgoing invoices
1923-1929
41 20
Dee Packing House inventory
1924
41 21
Fruit shipment receipts from Dee farm
1923 October
41 22-24
Invoices and correspondence
1924-1937
41 25
Dee farm invoices
1930-1941
42 1-2
Dee Packing House invoices
1934-1940
42 3
Yasui & Hishikawa Dee packing invoices
1936
42 4
Dee and Mosier packing invoices
1936
42 5-8
Compiled Mosier farm invoices
1924-1941
42 9
Business correspondence between Masuo Yasui and W. H. Weber regarding Mosier Farm
1923-1931
42 10-12
Mosier Ranch order receipts, invoices
1938-1941
42 13
Pine Grove invoices
1919
42 14-15
Pine Grove Ranch (includes records related to Apple Growers Association)
1924-1941
42 16
Pine Grove Ranch activity logs
1930
42 17-18
Summit Orchard invoices, account statements, correspondence
1925-1928
42 19
Summit Ranch accounting ledger
1908-1918
43 1-4
Willow Flat time vouchers
circa 1926-1941
43 5
Willow Flat expense reports, crop statements
1928-1941
43 6
Willow Flat time book, orchard receipt book
1932-1933
43 7-12
Willow Flat time vouchers
1932-1938
43 13
Willow Flat picking and hour logs
1932-1938
43 14
Willow Flat operating expense reports, correspondence, court proceedings
1932-1939
43 15
Willow Flat farm operation statements
1934
43 16
Willow Flat packing ledger
1934
43 17
Willow Flat Invoices
1934-1937
44 1-3
Willow Flat Invoices
1934-1937
44 4
Willow Flat order book
1941
44 5-6
Willow Flat Ranch correspondence and invoices
1934-1941
44 7-9
Willow Flat customer account records, store charges
1934-1941
91 1
Willow Flat account files
1935
44 10-12
Willow Flat sales books
1936
44 13-15
Willow Flat Ranch invoices
1936-1941
44 16
Willow Flat invoices
1937-1941
44 17
Willow Flat purchase order books
1938
46 1
Willow Flat packing logs
circa 1938-1939
46 2-3
Willow Flat apple and pear packing receipts
1939
46 4
Willow Flat Packing House canceled checks (First National Bank account)
1938 September-October
46 5
Willow Flat Packing House canceled checks (First National Bank account)
1940 September-1941 November
46 6
Yasui farm carrier tickets and berry picker punch cards
1919
46 7
Yasui Ranch monthly time vouchers
1921-1922, 1930-1940
46 8
Yasui farm ledger (in English and Japanese)
1923
46 9-10
Compiled Yasui farm invoices and interest statements (in English and Japanese)
1924-1936
45 1
Yasui farm invoice
1924 October 24
46 11
Yasui financial statements
1929-1939
46 12
Yasui Brothers Ranch time tickets
1936 April-June
46 13
Yasui Brothers Ranch time tickets
1936-1937
46 14
Yasui Brothers time vouchers
1936-1937
46 15
Yasui Brothers Ranch time tickets, orchard supplies invoices
1936, 1938
46 16
Yasui Brothers Ranch time tickets
1937-1938
46 17
Yasui Brothers Ranch time tickets
1938
46 18
Yasui Brothers Ranch monthly time statements
1939
47 1
Yasui Brothers Ranch time tickets, order booklet
1939-1941
47 2
Yasui Brothers Ranch daily time vouchers
1941 March-April
47 3
Yasui Brothers Ranch daily time vouchers
1941 April-May
47 4
Yasui Brothers Ranch daily time vouchers
1941 June-July
47 5
Yasui Brothers Ranch canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1919 May-July
47 6
Yasui Brothers Ranch canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1920 June
47 7
Yasui Brothers Ranch canceled checks (Butler Banking account) No. 3 by T. Yasui
1920-1921
47 8
Yasui Brothers Ranch canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1921 June
47 9
Yasui Brothers Ranch canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1922
47 10
Yasui-Hishikawa Packing House checkbook (First National Bank account)
1937 September-October
47 11
Yasui-Hishikawa Packing House checkbook (First National Bank account)
1937 October-November
47 12
Yasui-Hishikawa Packing House checkbook (First National Bank account)
1939 October-December
47 13
Yasui-Hishikawa Packing House canceled checks (First National Bank account)
1941 August-September
47 14
Yasui-Hishikawa Packing House canceled checks (First National Bank account)
1941 September-October
Subseries 3.3: Apple Growers Association (AGA) records
1914-1947
Box Folder
47 15
Membership bylaws
1925
47 16
Administrative board of directors election ballots
An item in this folder is viewable online: Apple Growers Association Ballot for Directors, 1937
1937
47 17
Board of directors election ballot showing Masuo Yasui as candidate, vote tallies
An item in this folder is viewable online: Apple Growers Association Ballot for Directors, 1939
1939
47 18
Correspondence
1914
47 19
Administrative memo
1918
47 20
Administrative correspondence
1921
47 21
Administrative memos
1928-1929
47 22
Administrative memo from the Federal Farm Board
1931
47 23 1932
47 24
Correspondence, memos, sales reports
1935
47 25
Correspondence
1936
47 26-27
Administrative correspondence, memos, sales reports, and packing tallies
1936
47 28-29
AGA Director's Meeting notices, correspondence and memos
1936-1937
47 30
Administrative correspondence, memos, sales reports
1937
47 31-32
Administrative correspondence, memos, sales reports
1938
47 33-34
Board memos, correspondence, reports and financial statements
1939
48 1
Administrative memos and sales reports
1939
48 2
Correspondence
1940-1941
48 3
Administrative memos, correspondence, reports and bylaws
1940
48 4
Administrative correspondence, memos, sales reports
1941
48 5
Administrative correspondence
1942
48 6
Assorted farm invoices
1916
48 7
Invoices
1923
48 8
Produce shipment or sales notes
1925-1941
48 9
Apple shipment receipts
1925
48 10 1927-1930
45 2
Crop distribution invoices
1928-1934
48 11
Invoices
1931
48 12
Apple receipts
1932
48 13
Hishikawa packing tally invoice
1931
48 14
Invoices and memos
1932
48 15
Invoices
1934
45 3
Crop distribution invoices
1934-1935
48 16
Crop distribution invoices
1934-1936
45 4
Receipts
1934-1936
48 17
Invoices
1935
48 18-19
Invoices
1936
48 20
Yasui and Hishikawa incoming invoices
1936-1939
48 21-22
Invoices
1937
48 23
Loose fruit invoices
1937
48 24
Crop distribution invoices
1937-1938
48 25
Invoices
1938
48 26
Yasui Brothers apple and pear warehouse receipts
1938
48 27
Invoices
1938
48 28
Invoices and box registers
1939
49 1
Invoices
1939
49 2-3
Order books
1939
49 4
Crop distribution invoices
1939-1941
49 5
Invoices
1940
49 6-7
Invoices
1941
49 8
Invoices
1942
49 9
Sales reports and invoices
1947
49 10
Partnership forms, order logs, wage logs
1922-1940
49 11
Fruit washing and packing registers
1938
49 12
Administrative inspection reports, packing tallies, memos
1923, 1929-1931
49 13
Reports and tallies
1936
49 14
Administrative meeting minutes and sales reports
1939
45 5
AGA Audit Report to the Board
1939 May 31
49 15
Report, "Plans and Proposals for the Precooling and Storage of A. G. A. Apples and Winter Pears"
1941
Subseries 3.4: Mid-Columbia Vegetable Growers (MCVG) records
1925-1941
Box Folder
49 16
Correspondence
1926
49 17
Correspondence
1929
49 18
Asparagus market price ledger
1925
49 19
Invoices
1925-1929
49 20
Sales ledger
1926
49 21
Correspondence, sales lists
1926
49 22
Asparagus correspondence, invoices
1926-1927
49 23
Ledgers
1926-1931
49 24
Customer account statements, compiled
1927
49 25
Customer account statements, compiled
1927
50 1
Asparagus invoices to Yasui Brothers
1927
50 2-3
Asparagus invoices, compiled
1927
50 4
Ledger
1927-1928
50 5-6
Compiled invoices
1929
50 7
Asparagus receipts
1929
50 8
Invoices from Kay Yamahiro, Pacific Fruit & Produce Co.
1929
50 9-10
Invoices from Stadelman Fruit Company from ledger
1929
50 11
Invoices from Goodrich Truck Line
1929
50 12-14
Invoices from Goodrich Truck Line, compiled
1929-1930
50 15-17
Invoices from Goodrich Truck Line, compiled
1929-1931
51 1
Sales lists
1929-1931
51 2-4
Compiled produce receipts, invoices, and correspondence
1929-1934
51 5-6
Sales ledgers
circa 1929-1941
51 7
Correspondence
1930
51 8
Invoices
1930
51 9
Grass invoices
1930
51 10
Invoices from Goodrich Truck Line, correspondence, sales notes
1930-1931
51 11
Invoices
1931
51 12
Sales lists
1931
51 13
Invoices from Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. and Kay Yamahiro
1931
51 14
Asparagus correspondence
1932
51 15
Invoices
1934-1936
51 16-17
S. M. Yorizane invoices
1935
51 18
Asparagus invoices
1935
51 19
S. M. Yorizane, Ideal Grader & Nursery Co. invoices to Yasui Brothers
1935
51 20-22
Shipment invoices to Willow Flat Ranch, compiled
1935-1937
52 1-6
Asparagus invoices, compiled
1935-1938
52 7
Yasui Brothers money order sales lists
1937
52 8
Invoices
1937-1939
52 9-14
Asparagus invoices, compiled
1937-1939
52 15
Yasui Brothers money order sales lists
1939
53 1-2
Compiled invoices to Yasui Brothers and H. Kajita
1939
53 3
Invoices
1939-1940
53 4-9
Asparagus invoices, compiled
1939-1941
53 10-14 1939-1941
53 15
MCVG notebook for First National Bank account
1932
53 16
MCVG canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1929 May-July
53 17
MCVG canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1929 August-November
53 18
MCVG canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1929-1930
53 19
MCVG canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1931-1932
53 20
MCVG canceled checks (Butler Banking account)
1931 October-1932 January
53 21
MCVG canceled checks (First National Bank account)
1932 July-1933 April

Series 4:  Financial records, 1905-1942Return to Top

77.62 cubic feet, (63 record cartons, 5 flat boxes, 9 oversize flat boxes)

This large series primarily contains the financial records of the Yasui Bros. store and some of the Yasuis' other businesses from 1905-1942. A significant portion of the series is incoming invoices from specific and general wholesalers and vendors, outgoing invoices issued by Yasui Bros., and shipping and freight records, especially for trucking produce. Yasui Bros. customer accounts and general files such as accounting ledgers are also present, as well as records of rental payments for apartments the Yasuis rented above their store, often to other Japanese Americans. The series also includes insurance and property tax records, and banking records such as canceled checks and notices of the exchange rate between U.S. dollars and Japanese yen. Some materials were retained in this collection due to the possibility that they are the only records of Japanese or Japanese American individuals' presence in Hood River before World War II. A substantial amount of this series' contents are in Japanese, most of which is not translated.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 4.1: Incoming invoices to Yasui Brothers
1908-1942
Box Folder
54 1
Aoki Taiseido invoices (in Japanese)
1915-1930
54 2-3
Aoki Taisheido invoices, compiled (in Japanese and English)
1931-1936
54 4
Aoki Taiseido invoices (in Japanese and English)
1937
54 5
Bartol Motor Co. invoices (in English)
1925-1941
54 6
Bread and grocery invoices (in English)
1936-1937
45 6-7
Invoices from Fireman's Fund Insurance Company for rice shipments via Pacific Trading Company (in English)
1927-1941
54 7
E. A. Franz Co. invoices (in English)
1925-1929
54 8
E. A. Franz Co. invoices (in English)
1927-1939
54 9
Franz Furniture Co. invoices (in English)
1939-1940
54 10
M. Furuya Co. monthly statement invoices (in English)
1909-1923
54 11
M. Furuya Co. invoices (in Japanese)
1910
54 12
M. Furuya Co. invoices (in Japanese)
1910-1915
54 13-14
M. Furuya Co. invoices, compiled (in Japanese)
1911-1912
54 15-18
M. Furuya Co. invoices, compiled (in Japanese)
1913-1919
55 1
M. Furuya Co. invoices (in English)
1914
55 2
M. Furuya Co. invoices (in Japanese)
1920-1927
55 3
Hood River Produce Exchange invoices (in English)
1914
55 4
Hudson-Duncan and Pacific Wholesale Grocery invoices (in English)
1939-1941
55 5
Industrial Paint Works invoices (in English)
1941
55 6
"T. W. Jenkins & Co. Monthly Statements" invoices (in English)
1914-1928
55 7
M. Nishimoto & Co. invoices (in Japanese)
1923-1929
55 8
North Coast Grocery & Trading Co., Inc. invoices (in English)
1919-1925
55 9-10
North Coast Grocery & Trading Co., Inc. invoices, compiled (in Japanese)
1920-1927
55 11-12
North Coast Importing Company invoices, compiled (in Japanese and English)
1928-1937
55 13
North Coast Importing Company invoices (in Japanese)
1938-1942
55 14
Pacific Trading Co. invoices (in Japanese and English)
1923-1926
55 15-16
Pacific Trading Co. invoices (in Japanese and English)
1927-1930
55 17-18
Pacific Trading Co. invoices, compiled (in Japanese)
1927-1938
56 1-2
Pacific Trading Co. invoices, compiled (in Japanese)
1927-1938
55 19
Pacific Trading Co. invoices (in English)
1930-1941
55 20
Pacific Trading Co. invoices (in English)
1931-1935
57 1
Pacific Trading Co. invoices (in English)
1936-1941
56 3-4
Invoices from Pacific Trading Co., compiled (in Japanese)
1938-1940
57 2
Safeway Stores invoices (in English)
1936-1937
57 3
Sanyo Co. invoices (in English)
1927-1929
57 4
Stanley-Smith Lumber Co. invoices (in English)
1913
57 5
State Industrial Accident Commission invoices (in English)
1938-1939
57 6
C. M. & W. O. Sheppard invoices (in English)
1934-1937
57 7
C. M. & W. O. Sheppard invoices (in English)
1937-1941
57 8
The Texas Company invoices to Masuo Yasui (in English)
1931-1934
57 9
The Texas Company invoices to Masuo Yasui (in English)
1936-1937
57 10
The Texas Company invoices to Masuo Yasui (in English)
1938-1939
57 11
The Texas Company invoices to M. Yasui (in English)
1941
57 12
Unger's Machine Shop invoices (in English)
1936-1942
57 13-14
Invoices (in English)
1908
57 15-16
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1908
57 17
Invoices (in English)
1910
57 18-19
Invoices (in English)
1911
57 20
Invoices (in English)
1912
57 21
Invoices (in English)
1913
57 22-23
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1913
57 24
Invoices (in English)
1914
57 25
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1914-1917
58 1-4
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1914-1917
58 5
Invoices (in English)
1915
58 6-9
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1915
58 10-12
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1916
58 13
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1917
58 14-16
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1917
58 17
Invoices (in English)
1917-1919
58 18-19
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1917-1928
59 1-4
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1917-1919
59 5
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1917-1919
59 6-7
Invoices (in English)
1918
59 8
Invoices (in English)
1918
59 9-10
Compiled invoices and correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1918-1919
59 11-13
Invoices (in English)
1919
59 14-17
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1919-1922
59 18
Invoices (in English)
1920
59 19
Invoices (in English)
1920
60 1-2
Invoices (in English)
1920
60 3-4
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1921
60 5-6
Invoices (in English)
1921
60 7-8
Invoices (in English)
1921-1922
60 9-11
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1922
60 12
Telephone bills (in English)
1922-1941
60 13-14
Invoices (in English)
1923
60 15-16
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1923
60 17-18
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1923-1924
61 1-4
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1923-1924
61 5-7
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English and Japanese)
1923-1924
61 8-9
Invoices (in English)
1924
61 10-16
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1924-1925
62 1-2
Invoices (in English)
1925
62 3-6
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1925-1928
62 7-8
Invoices (in English)
1926
62 9-10
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1926
62 11-12
Invoices (in English)
1926
62 13-15
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1926-1927
63 1-2
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1926-1929
63 3-4
Invoices (in English)
1927
63 5-8
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1927
63 9-10
Invoices (in English)
1927
63 11-14
Invoices (in English)
1928
63 15-16
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1928
63 17
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1928-1929
64 1-4
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1928-1929
64 5-12
Invoices (in English)
1928-1929
64 13
Invoices (in English)
1929
64 14
Invoices and correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1929
64 15
Compiled invoices and correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1929-1930
65 1
Compiled invoices and correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1929-1930
65 2-3
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1929-1936
65 4-8
Invoices (in English)
1930-1931
65 9-10
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1930-1931
65 11-13
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1930-1938
65 14-15
Invoices (in English)
1931
65 16-18
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1931-1932
66 1
Invoices (in English)
1932
66 2-7
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1932-1933
66 8
Invoices (in English)
1932-1935
66 9-10
Invoices (in English)
1933
66 11-12
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1934
66 13
Invoices (in English)
1934
66 14-15
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1934-1935
67 1
Invoices (in English)
1935
67 2-3
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1935
67 4
Invoices (in English)
1935-1937
67 5-7
Invoices (in English)
1936
67 8-9
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1936
67 10-11
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1936-1937
67 12-14
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1937
67 15-16
Invoices (in English)
1937
68 1-3
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1937-1938
68 4
Invoices (in English)
1937-1941
68 5-7
Invoices (in English)
1938
68 8-9
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1938-1939
68 10
Invoices (in English)
1938-1939
68 11-12
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1939
68 13-15
Invoices (in English)
1939
68 16
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
68 17
Invoices (in English)
1940
68 18
Invoices (in English)
1940
69 1
Invoices (in English)
1940
69 2-3
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1940
69 4
Invoices (in English)
1940-1942
69 5-7
Compiled invoices and related financial records (in English)
1940-1942
69 8-10
Invoices (in English)
1941
Subseries 4.2: Outgoing invoices from Yasui Brothers
1909-1942
Box Folder
69 11-18
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1921
70 1-2
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1921
70 3-4
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1923 December
70 5-8
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1923
70 9-11
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 from Jan. to June 1924 (in Japanese)
1924 January-June
70 12-13
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 From Dec 1st to Dec 31st 1924 (in Japanese)
1924 December
70 14-18
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1926
71 1-4
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1926
71 5-6
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1926
71 7-10
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1927
71 11-13
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 from Aug 1st to Dec 1927 (in Japanese)
1927 August-December
71 14-15
Invoices from ledger titled 1928 Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1928
72 1-4
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1928
72 5
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 1 1930 (in Japanese)
1930
72 6-9
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 1 1930 (in Japanese)
1930
72 10-13
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 1 1931 (in Japanese)
1931
72 14-16
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1936
73 1
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1936
73 2-4
Invoices from ledger titled No. 1 Bill (in Japanese)
1937-1938
73 5-6
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1937-1938
73 7-9
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 1 (in Japanese)
1937-1938
73 10-11
Invoices from ledger titled Jan 1916 Dec 1916 Bill 2 (in Japanese)
1916
73 12-13
Invoices from ledger titled No. 2 Bill (in Japanese)
1922-1926
73 14-16
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 2 1931 from Jan to Dec (in Japanese)
1928-1930
74 1
Invoices from ledger titled No. 2 Bill (in Japanese)
1938-1940
74 2
Invoices from ledger titled Jun 1-1915 June 30-1915 Bill No. 3 (in Japanese)
1915
74 3-4
Invoices from ledger titled Jun 1-1915 June 30-1915 Bill No. 3 (in Japanese)
1915
74 5-8
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 1916 (in Japanese)
1916
74 9-10
Invoices from ledger titled Aug 1-1918 Dec 31-1918 Bill 3 (in Japanese)
1918
74 11-13
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 1916 (in Japanese)
1918
74 14-15
Invoices from ledger titled Jan 1919 Dec 1919 Bill 3 (in Japanese)
1919
75 1-2
Invoices from ledger titled Jan 1919 Dec 1919 Bill 3 (in Japanese)
1919
75 3-7
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 1920 (in Japanese)
1920
75 8-12
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 1921 (in Japanese)
1921
75 13-15
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 1922 (in Japanese)
1922
75 16
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 From Aug to Dec 1923 (in Japanese)
1923
76 1
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 From Aug to Dec 1923 (in Japanese)
1923
76 2-3
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 1923 (in Japanese)
1923
76 4-6
Invoices from ledger titled Bill #3 1924 (in Japanese)
1924
76 7-8
Invoices from ledger titled Bill #3 1925 (Japanese)
1925
76 9
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 From Jan to Dec 1926 (in Japanese)
1926
76 10-11
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 (in Japanese)
1927
76 12-13
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 (in Japanese)
1928
76 14-15
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 3 (in Japanese)
1929
76 16-18
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 3 1930 (in Japanese)
1930
76 19-20
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 (in Japanese)
1930-1937
77 1
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 (in Japanese)
1930-1937
77 2-3
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 (in Japanese)
1931
77 4
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 (in Japanese)
1932
77 5
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice Bill No. 3 1935 (in Japanese)
1935
77 6
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice Bill No. 3 1935 (in Japanese)
1935
77 7-8
Invoices from ledger titled Bill No. 3 (in Japanese)
1936
77 9-11
Invoices from ledger titled No. 3 (in Japanese)
1937
77 12
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 3 (in Japanese)
1938
77 13
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice No. 3 1939 (in Japanese)
1939
77 14-16
Invoices from ledger titled Invoice Bill No. 3 (in Japanese)
1940-1942
77 17
Rent invoices (in English)
1909
77 18
Rent invoices (in English)
1926
77 19
Apartment rental invoices (in English)
1932-1940
77 20
Rent and shipping invoices (in English)
1934-1938
77 21
Rent invoices (in English)
1936
77 22
Invoices with M. Niguma Co. letterhead (in Japanese)
1913
78 1-7
Invoices with M. Niguma Co. letterhead (in Japanese)
1913-1914
78 8-15
Compiled invoices with M. Niguma Co. letterhead (in Japanese)
1914
79 1-3
Compiled invoices with M. Niguma Co. letterhead (in Japanese)
1914
79 4-5
Compiled invoices with M. Niguma Co. letterhead (in Japanese)
1914-1915
79 6-8
Compiled invoices with M. Niguma Co. letterhead (in Japanese)
1915
79 9
Invoices (in Japanese)
1911-1912
79 10-11
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1914-1915
79 12-15
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1915
80 1-5
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1915
80 6-11
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1915-1916
80 12-18
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1916
81 1-2
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1916
81 3
Invoices and business lists from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1916
81 4
Invoices (in Japanese)
1916-1917
81 5-19
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1917
82 1
Invoices (in Japanese)
1917
82 2-5
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1917-1918
82 6
Invoices from ledger titled Jan 1-1918 Nov 30-1918 (in Japanese)
1918
82 7-17
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1918
83 1
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1918-1922
83 2-10
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1919
83 11-12
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1919-1922
83 13-14
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1919-1923
84 1-10
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1920
84 11
Invoices (in Japanese)
1921-1922
84 12-16
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1922
85 1-2
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1922-1924
85 3-4
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1922-1927
85 5-6
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1923
85 7-9
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1923-1924
85 10-14
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1924
85 15-16
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1924-1928
85 17-20
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1925
86 1-6
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1925
86 7
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1925
86 8
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1925-1928
86 9-10
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1926
86 11-12
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1926-1927
86 13
Invoices (in Japanese)
1926-1938
86 14
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1927, 1935-1936
86 15
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1927, 1938-1939
86 16-17
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1927
86 18
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1928
86 19
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1928-1941
87 1-4
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1929
87 5
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1931-1932
87 6
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1931-1941
87 7-10
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1932
87 11
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1932-1933
87 12
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1932-1937
87 13-14
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1933
87 15
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1933-1934
87 16
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1934
88 1-2
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1934
88 3-5
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1935
88 6
Compiled invoices
1935-1936
88 7
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1937-1938
88 8
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1939
88 9-10
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1939
88 11
Compiled invoices (in Japanese)
1939-1941
88 12
Invoices (in Japanese)
1940-1941
Subseries 4.3: Shipping records
1912-1942
Box Folder
90 12
Consolidated Freightways invoices to and from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1939-1942
128 7
Correspondence and forms relating to trucking shipments by H. L. Crapper (in English)
1923
128 8
Apple City Truck Line phone cards (in English)
1926
128 9-14
Apple City Truck Line invoices (in English)
1925
128 15
Apple City Truck Line invoices, correspondence, and blank templates (in English)
1925-1926
128 16
Deposit record for Apple City Truck Line by H. L. Crapper (in English)
1926
128 17-21
Apple City Truck Line invoices (in English)
1926
129 1-2
Apple City Truck Line invoices (in English)
1926
129 3-6
Apple City Truck Line consignment invoices (in English)
1926
129 7
Apple City Truck Line correspondence and invoices (in English)
1926
129 8
Apple City Truck Line order receipts (in English)
1926
129 9
Blank Apple City Truck Line checkbook (in English)
circa 1925
129 10
Blank Apple City Truck Line manifest (in English)
circa 1925
129 11
Goodrich Truck Line invoices (in English)
1932
129 12
Greenwood Truck Line records (in English)
1924-1925
129 13
Greenwood Truck Line invoices (in English)
1925
129 14
Hood River Truck Line and Apple City Truck Line invoice booklets (in English)
1926
129 15
Hood River Truck Line manifest (in English)
1924
129 16
Morris-Lowther Transfer Company invoices (in English)
1925
129 17-18
Warren Truck Line invoices (in English)
1924
130 1
Warren Truck Line receipt booklet (in English)
1924
130 2
Trucking line contract and handbooks (in English)
1923
130 3
Trucking invoices, including from Warren Truck Line (in English)
1922
130 4
Trucking invoices, including from Warren Truck Line (in English)
1923
130 5
Trucking invoices, including from Warren Truck Line (in English)
1924
130 6
Trucking invoices, including from Greenwood Truck Line and Hood River Truck Line (in English)
1925
130 7-8
Trucking invoices, including from Greenwood Truck Line and Warren Truck Line (in English)
1925
130 9
Trucking invoices (in English)
1926
130 10-11
Trucking invoices, including from Goodrich Truck Line (in English)
1932
88 13-15
Railroad shipping invoices from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1913-1914
88 16-17
Railroad shipping invoices from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1915
89 1
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1915
89 2
Railroad shipping invoices from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1915-1916
89 3
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1916-1917
89 4
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1917-1918
89 5
Railroad shipping invoices from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1918
89 6
Railroad shipping invoices from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1919
89 7
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1919
89 8
Railroad shipping invoices from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1920
89 9
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1920
89 10
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1921
89 11
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1924-1926
89 12
Assorted railroad shipping invoices to and from Yasui Bros. (in English)
circa 1924-1935
89 13
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1926
89 14
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1928
89 15
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1929-1932
89 16
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1930-1939
90 1-2
Railroad shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1930-1939
90 3
Freight shipping receipts from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1912-1914
90 4-5
Freight shipping invoices to Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1913-1920
90 6
Freight bills to Yasui Bros. (in English)
1921
90 7
Freight shipping invoices to and from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1924-1925
90 8-9
Freight shipping invoices to and from Yasui Bros., compiled (in English)
1926
90 10
Shipping receipts (in English)
1940-1941
90 11
Produce shipping correspondence (in English)
1915
130 12
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1933
130 13
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1934
130 14
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1935
130 15
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1936
130 16
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1937
130 17
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1938
130 18
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1939
130 19
Assorted freight line invoices (in English)
1941-1942
Subseries 4.4: Customer account records
1910-1942
Box Folder
90 13
Customer account ledger (in Japanese)
1910
90 14
Customer's account book (in English)
circa 1910-1919
90 15
Customer account ledger (in Japanese)
1910
90 16
Customer account ledger (in English)
1929-1931
91 2-3
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1911
92 1-2
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1911
93 1-2
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1911
93 3
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1911
97 1
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1911-1913
94 1
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1912
94 2
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1912-1913
95 1-2
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1912-1913
96 1-2
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1912-1913
96 3
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1913
97 2
Compiled customer account files (in Japanese)
1913
90 17
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 January
90 18
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 January
90 19
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 February
98 1
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 February
98 2-3
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 March
98 4-5
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 April
98 6
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 May
98 7
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 May-June
98 8
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 June
98 9
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 July
98 10
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 August
98 11
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 September
98 12
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 October
98 13
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 November
98 14
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1911 December
99 1
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 January
99 2
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 February
99 3-4
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 March
99 5
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 April
99 6-7
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 May
99 8
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 June
99 9
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 July
99 10
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 August
99 11-12
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 September
99 13-14
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 October
99 15-16
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 November
100 1
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 December
100 2
Compiled Yasui Bros. store customer receipts (in Japanese)
1912 December
100 3
Customer receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1939
100 4
Customer receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1939
100 5
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1910-1916
100 6
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1915-1916
100 7-8
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1916
100 9
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1916-1917
100 10
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1917
100 11-12
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1917-1918
100 13-14
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1917-1920
100 15
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1919
100 16
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1920
100 17
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1920
100 18
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1920-1922
100 19-20
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1921
101 1-2
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1922
101 3
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1922-1926
101 4-5
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1923
101 6-8
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese and English)
1923-1932
101 9-10
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1924
101 11-12
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1925
101 13
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1925-1939
101 14-15
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1926
101 16
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1926-1929
101 17
Customer account statements and related financial records (in Japanese)
1926-1936
102 1
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1928-1934
102 2
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1929
102 3
Customer account statements (in Japanese)
1930-1942
102 4
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1932-1938
102 5
Compiled customer account statements (in Japanese)
1935
102 6
Order booklets for Christmas and New Year's purchases by Nihonjin (Japanese Americans) in Hood River Valley (in Japanese and English)
1933
102 7
Order booklets for Christmas and New Year's purchases by Nihonjin (Japanese Americans) in Hood River Valley (in Japanese and English)
1933-1934
102 8
Order booklets for Christmas and New Year's purchases by Nihonjin (Japanese Americans) in Hood River Valley (in Japanese and English)
1935
102 9
Order booklets for Christmas and New Year's purchases by Nihonjin (Japanese Americans) in Hood River Valley (in Japanese and English)
1935-1936
102 10
Order booklets for Christmas and New Year's purchases by Nihonjin (Japanese Americans) in Hood River Valley (in Japanese and English)
1937
102 11
Order booklets for Christmas and New Year's purchases by Nihonjin (Japanese Americans) in Hood River Valley (in Japanese and English)
1938
Subseries 4.5: General financial records
1905-1942
Box Folder
102 12
Cashier's account book (in Japanese)
undated
103 1
Oversize financial ledger (in Japanese)
1908-1921
102 13
Yasui Bros. business accounting ledgers (in English and Japanese)
1908-1922
104 1
Financial ledger (in Japanese and English)
1908-1909
105 1
Financial ledger (in Japanese)
1908-1909
106 1
Financial ledger (in Japanese)
1910-1911
102 14
Financial ledgers (in English)
circa 1910-1919
102 15
Financial notebooks (in Japanese)
1910-1919
102 16
Financial notebook (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1919
102 17
Assorted financial notebooks (in Japanese)
1910-1919
102 18
Financial ledger (in Japanese)
1911
107 2
Financial ledger (in Japanese)
1911-1914
102 19
Accounting booklets (in English)
1911-1913
102 20
Financial ledger (in English)
1912-1921
108 1
Assorted financial notebooks (in Japanese)
1912-1926
108 2
Accounting booklets (in English)
1913-1915
108 3
Financial notebooks (in Japanese)
1913-1920
108 4
Accounting booklets (in Japanese)
1915-1916
108 5
Daily cash statement ledger (in English)
1915-1921
108 6
Financial statements to and from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1915-1922
108 7
Business financial records (in Japanese)
1916-1918
108 8-9
Accounting booklets (in English)
1916-1918
108 10
Accounting ledger (in English)
1917-1919
108 11
Accounting booklets (in English)
1918-1920
108 12
Financial notes and records from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1919-1939
108 13
Accounting booklets (in English)
1920-1921
108 14
Accounting ledgers (in Japanese)
1920
108 15-16
Financial notebooks (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1929
108 17
Financial notebook (in Japanese)
1920-1926
109 1
Cash book (in English)
1921-1922
109 2
Daily cash statement ledger (in English)
1921-1922
103 2
Financial ledger (in Japanese)
1922-1939
109 3
Accounting ledger (in English)
1923-1928
109 4
Ledgers (in English and Japanese)
1923-1929
109 5
Financial booklets and stubs (in Japanese)
circa 1924-1925
109 6
Financial ledgers (in English)
1923-1929
109 7
Financial booklets (in Japanese)
1924-1925
109 8
Financial records from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1925-1939
109 9
Assorted expense books and trip expenses lists (in English and Japanese)
1926-1940
109 10
Daily cash statement ledger (in English)
1926-1930
109 11-12
Financial notebooks (in Japanese)
circa 1930-1939
109 13
Financial notebook (in Japanese)
circa 1930-1939
109 14
Financial journal (in Japanese)
1933
109 15-16
Financial notebooks (in Japanese)
1933
109 17
Accounting pocket book (in English)
1934
109 18
Financial notebooks (in Japanese)
1934-1941
110 1
Accounting notes (in Japanese)
1937
110 2
Accounting ledgers (in Japanese and English)
1937-1938
110 3
Accounting ledgers (in Japanese)
1938-1939
110 4
Accounting ledgers (in Japanese)
1939-1940
110 5
Ledgers (in Japanese)
1939-1941
110 6
Accounting book (in Japanese and English)
1939-1942
110 7
Financial counterbook (in Japanese)
1939-1942
110 8
Accounting ledgers (in Japanese)
1939-1940
110 9
Accounting ledgers (in Japanese)
1940-1941
110 10
Assorted financial notebooks (in Japanese)
undated
130 21
Contract with Union Oil Company of California (in English)
1927-1929
110 11
Store expenses lists (in English)
1937-1940
110 12
Equitable Life Assurance Society files (in English)
1911-1930
110 13
Assorted Yasui Bros. insurance forms (in English)
1918-1937
110 14
Yasui Bros. fire insurance forms (in English)
1926-1930
110 15
Yasui Bros. insurance forms (in English)
1930-1931
110 16
Equitable Life Assurance Society files (in English)
1930-1938
110 17
Yasui Bros. fire insurance forms (in English)
1932-1933
110 18
Yasui Bros. fire insurance forms (in English)
1934-1936
110 19
Yasui Bros. fire insurance forms (in English)
1937-1941
110 20
Assorted Yasui Bros. insurance forms (in English)
1938-1941
110 21
Yasui Bros. fire insurance forms (in English)
1942
111 1
Money order receipt stubs (in English)
1912-1914
111 2
Money orders and banking notes (in Japanese)
1914-1925
111 3
Money order receipt stubs (in English)
1915-1917
111 4
Money wire transfer notes (in Japanese)
1924-1925
111 5
American Railway Express money order receipts from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1925-1930
111 6
Money order booklet (in English)
1932
111 7
Money order sales receipts (in English)
1935
111 8-10
Money order sales receipts (in English)
1936
111 11
Money order stubs (in English)
1937-1941
111 12
American Express money orders (in English)
1937-1941
111 13
American Express money orders (in English)
1937-1941
111 14
American Express money orders (in English)
1937-1941
111 15
Bound money order book (in English)
1938-1941
111 16
Memo book (in Japanese)
1908
111 17
Order book (in Japanese)
circa 1908-1910
111 18
Order book (in Japanese)
1910-1912
111 19
Order books (in Japanese)
1909-1911
111 20
Sales order books (in Japanese)
1915-1916
112 1-2
Sales order books (in Japanese)
1916
112 3-4
Sales order books (in Japanese)
1917-1921
112 5
Sales order books (in Japanese)
1925-1926, 1936
112 6
Sales order books (in English)
1936
112 7
Sales order books (in English and Japanese)
1938-1940
112 8
Advance payment stubs (in English)
1927-1928
113 1
Payroll summary sheets (in English)
1939-1941
112 9
Goods price lists (in Japanese)
1913-1915
112 10
Goods price lists (in Japanese)
circa 1925-1926
112 11
Inventory or price list notebook (in Japanese)
circa 1930-1939
112 12
Notebook with wholesaler price lists (in Japanese)
1932-1933
112 13
Farm property real estate files (in English)
1913-1914
112 14
Receipt pocket books (in English)
1909-1911
112 15
Receipt stub booklets (in Japanese)
1912-1929
112 16-19
Receipts to Yasui Bros. (in English)
1913
112 20
Receipts for insured mail (in English)
1915-1917
112 21
Receipt booklet (in English)
1917
114 1
Sales receipts (in English)
1917
114 2
Sales receipts (in English)
1918
114 3
Sales receipts (in English)
1918
114 4-5
Compiled sales receipts (in English)
1920
114 6
Receipts for insured mail from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1920-1921
114 7
Receipts to Yasui Bros. (in English)
1920-1921
114 8
Receipts for insured mail from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1921
114 9
Receipts (in Japanese)
1921
114 10-11
Compiled sales receipts (in English)
1922
114 12-13
Compiled sales receipts (in English)
1923
114 14
Sales receipts (in English)
1925
114 15-16
Compiled sales receipts (in English)
1926
114 17
Receipt books (in English)
1926
115 1-2
Receipt books (in English)
1927
115 3
Receipt book (in English)
1929
115 4
House rent receipt books (in English)
1929-1931
115 5
House rent receipt books (in English)
1930-1931
115 6
Apartment rent receipt books (in English)
1931-1932
115 7
Receipt book (in English)
1932-1936
115 8
Apartment rent receipt books (in English)
1933-1935
115 9
Rent payment receipts for First and Oak Street building (in English)
1933-1942
115 10
Apartment rent receipt books (in English)
1935-1936
115 11
House rent receipt books (in English)
1936
115 12
Sales receipts (in English)
1938
115 13
Apartment rent receipt books (in English)
1937-1941
115 14
Receipt books (in Japanese)
1939-1940
115 15
Receipt books (in Japanese)
1940
115 16
Receipt books (in English)
1940-1941
115 17
House rent receipt book (in English)
1942
115 18
Foster Hotel income and disbursements report (has Japanese business tenants; in English)
1937
115 19
Sales record from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1916 January 4
115 20
Stockholder information cards (in Japanese)
undated
131 6
Yasui Bros. account statements for Apple Growers Association (in English)
1918-1925
115 21
Statements and invoices to and from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese and English)
1918-1919
116 1
Yasui Bros. business partnership federal tax returns and related documents (in English)
1918-1924
116 2
Yasui Bros. business partnership federal and state tax returns and related documents (in English)
1919-1929
116 3
Yasui Bros. business partnership federal and state tax returns and related documents (in English)
1930-1940
116 4
Yasui Bros. business partnership federal and state tax returns and related documents (in English)
1933-1940
116 5
Yasui Bros. business tax returns, notes, and calucations (in English)
circa 1920-1941
116 6
Corporate tax records for farms and farm businesses, including Oregon Orchards, Inc. (run by Ray Yasui) (in English)
1934-1941
116 7
Federal tax returns for Yasui and Tamura and Yasui and Hishikawa partnerships (in English)
1940
131 3
Yasui land partnership records, including with Kiyokawa (land purchases and lease records) (in English and Japanese)
1912-1939
116 8
Kuga and Kiyokawa partnership tax returns and related materials (in English)
1920-1938
131 1
Yasui land transaction records, including records relating to Yasui v. Boyce (in English and Japanese)
1910-1930
116 9
Hood River County property tax records and correspondence for Yasui Bros. and other Japanese Americans (in English and Japanese)
1911
131 2
Mortgage, lease, and sale documents for Yasui land transactions (in English)
1923-1936
131 4
Yasui land partnership, lease, and rent records, including Kiyokawa and Kuga (in English)
1923-1939
116 10
Hood River County property tax records for Yasuis and other Japanese Americans (in English)
1920-1925
116 11
Hood River County property tax records for Yasuis and other Japanese Americans (in English)
1928-1931, 1938
131 7
Mortgage and loan contracts with Apple Growers Association (in English)
1932-1939
131 5
Statements of Gordon Brown payments to Yasuis for rent and land purchases (in English)
1936
131 8
Legal and financial records between J. Hausinger and Yasui Bros., Mid-Columbia Vegetable Growers, and Apple Growers Association (in English)
1936
116 12
Masuo Yasui correspondence about federal and state tax returns and audits (in English)
1924-1942
116 13
State tax correspondence regarding the Yasuis' 1934 tax return having been destroyed in the Oregon Capitol fire (in English)
1935
116 14
Federal citizenship and tax correspondence (in English)
1935
116 15
Masuo Yasui correspondence about M. Kuga's taxes (in English)
1939 March 8
116 16
General tax records, including county taxes (in English)
1929-1941
116 17
Account ledgers belonging to Wilbur Carnes (in English)
1905-1906
Subseries 4.6: Banking records and miscellaneous
1908-1942
Box Folder
116 18
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1915-1916
116 19
Butler Banking checks and notes (in English)
1915-1931
116 20
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1916-1917
116 21
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1917-1918
116 22
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1918-1919
116 23
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1918-1919
116 24
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1919-1920
116 25
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1920-1921
116 26
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1920 December-1921 March
117 1
Butler Banking and First National Bank memorandum charge notes to Yasui Bros. (in English)
1920-1929
117 2
Butler Banking checkbooks (in English)
1920-1929
117 3
Butler Banking account booklet for Kurchara (in English)
1921
117 4
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1921 April-August
117 5
Butler Banking canceled checks from Kuni Kittaka (in English)
1921-1922
117 6
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1921 September-1922 January
117 7
Butler Banking check stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1921-1922
117 8
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1922 January-August
117 9
Butler Banking checkbook stub booklet (in English)
1922-1923
117 10
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1922 August-1923 February
117 11
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1922 December-1923 January
117 12
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 February-April
117 13
Butler Banking canceled checks from H. L. Crapper (in English)
1923 March-May
117 14
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 April-May
117 15
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 June-July
117 16
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 July-August
117 17
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 September-October
117 18
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923
117 19
Butler Banking check stub booklet (in English)
1923-1924
117 20
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1924
117 21
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 October-1924 February
117 22
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1924 February-August
117 23
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1924 September-1925 January
117 24
Butler Banking check stub booklet (in English)
1924-1925
117 25
Butler Banking check stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1925
118 1
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1925
118 2
Butler Banking checkbook stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1925-1926
118 3
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1926
118 4
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1926 January-April
118 5
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1926 May-July
118 6
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1926 August-December
118 7
Butler Banking check stubs from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1926-1927
118 8
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1926 December-1927 April
118 9
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1927
118 10
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1927 May-September
118 11
Butler Banking check stub booklet from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1927-1928
118 12
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1927 November-1928 April
118 13
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1928 May-July
118 14
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1928 August-December
118 15
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1928
118 16
Butler Banking check stub booklet from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1928-1929
118 17
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1928 December-1929 April
118 18
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1929 May-August
118 19
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1929
118 20
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1929 September-December
118 21
Butler Banking check stub booklet (in English)
1929-1930
118 22
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1930
118 23
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1930
118 24
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1930 December-1931 May
118 25
Butler Banking canceled checks from Japanese M. E. Church by Shidzuyo Yasui (in English)
1931
118 26
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1931 June-December
119 1
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1931
119 2
Butler Banking canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1931 December-1932 February
119 3
Butler Banking check stub booklet from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1931-1932
119 4
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1921-1922
119 5
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1922-1924
119 6
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1924-1925
119 7
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1925-1926
119 8
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1926-1927
119 9
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1927-1928
119 10
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1928-1929
119 11
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1929-1931
119 12
Butler Banking account booklets (in English)
1931-1932
119 13
Butler Banking deposit books (in English)
1915-1916
119 14
Butler Banking deposit books (in English)
1917-1919
119 15
Butler Banking deposit books (in English)
1919-1921
119 16
Unsorted deposit and receipt slips, mostly from Butler Banking (in English)
circa 1924-1929
130 22
Promissory notes and debt payment records, primarily from Butler Banking (in English)
1914-1938
119 17
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1908 September-December 1908
119 18-19
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1909
119 20
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1910
119 21
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1911
119 22
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1912
120 1
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1912
120 2
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1913
120 3-4
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1914
120 5
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1915
120 6
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1916
120 7
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1920 December-1921 July
120 8
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1921 August-December
120 9
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1922-1923
120 10
First National Bank checks and notes (in English)
1922-1936
120 11
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 January-May
120 12
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 May-September
120 13
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1923 September-November
120 14
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1923 December-1924 May
120 15
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1924 June-August
120 16
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1924 September-December
120 17
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1924 December-1925 January
120 18
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1925 February-July
120 19
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1925 August-December
121 1
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1927 January-May
121 2
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1927 May-September
121 3
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1927 October-December
121 4
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1927 December-1928 July
121 5
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1928 August-September
121 6
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1928 October-December
121 7
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1928 December 1929-April
121 8
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1929 May-August
121 9
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1929 September-December
121 10
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1932 January-April
121 11
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1932 April-May
121 12
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1932 June
121 13
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1932 July
121 14
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1932 August-September
121 15
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1932 October-December
121 16
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1933 January-May
121 17
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1933 May-August
121 18
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1933 September-December
122 1
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1936 June-July
122 2
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1936 October-November
122 3
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1936 November-December
122 4
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1936 December-February
122 5
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937
122 6
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 February-April
122 7
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 May
122 8
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 April-May
122 9
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 April-July
122 10
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 June
122 11
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 June-August
122 12
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 July-August
122 13
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 September
122 14
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 October
122 15
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1937 October
122 16
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1937 November-December
122 17
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 January-March
122 18
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 March-April
122 19
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 April-June
123 1
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 June
123 2
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 June-August
123 3
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 August-September
123 4
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 October
123 5
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 October-November
123 6
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 November-December
123 7
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1941 April-September
123 8
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1941 August-September
123 9
First National Bank canceled checks from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1941 September-October
123 10
First National Bank accounting booklets (in English)
1911-1912
123 11
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1922-1924
123 12
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1923-1924
123 13
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1925-1926
123 14
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1926-1927
123 15
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1928-1929
123 16
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1929-1931
123 17
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1931-1932
123 18
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1932-1933
123 19
First National Bank check register booklets (in English)
1933-1934
124 1
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1927-1928
124 2
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1934-1936
124 3
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1936-1937
124 4
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1937-1938
124 5
First National Bank deposit slips from Yasui Bros. (in English)
1938 May-October
124 6
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1938-1939
124 7
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1939-1940
124 8
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1940-1941
124 9
First National Bank deposit slips (in English)
1941 June-December
124 10
First National Bank check stub booklet (in English)
1938
124 11
First National Bank deposit booklets (in English)
1910-1911
124 12
First National Bank exchange notes (in English)
1913
124 13
First National Bank exchange notes (in English)
1917
113 2-3
The Sumitomo Bank of Seattle check stub booklets (in Japanese)
1918-1921
124 14-15
The Sumitomo Bank of Seattle banking notes, compiled (in Japanese)
1920-1921
124 16
The Sumitomo Bank of Seattle accounting booklets (in Japanese)
1921-1925
124 17
The Sumitomo Bank of Seattle banking notes (in Japanese)
1922-1923
124 18
The Sumitomo Bank of Seattle banking notes (in Japanese)
1922-1924
124 19
The Sumitomo Bank of Seattle banking notes (in Japanese)
1924-1926
124 20-21
Exchange rate update cards from Seattle Sumitomo Bank (in Japanese)
1932
125 1-2
Exchange rate update cards from Seattle Sumitomo Bank (in Japanese)
1933
125 3
Exchange rate update cards from Seattle Sumitomo Bank (in Japanese)
1934
125 4
Exchange rate update cards from Seattle Sumitomo Bank (in Japanese)
1935
125 5
Exchange rate update cards from Seattle Sumitomo Bank (in Japanese)
1936
125 6
Exchange rate update cards from Seattle Sumitomo Bank (in Japanese)
1937
125 7
Exchange rate update cards from Seattle Sumitomo Bank (in Japanese)
1938
125 8
Seattle Sumitomo Bank U.S. business guide (in Japanese)
undated
130 20
Miscellaneous accounts and financial notes (in English and Japanese)
circa 1920-1930
125 9
Bank notes (in Japanese)
circa 1924-1933
107 1
Bank notes (in Japanese)
circa 1925
125 10
Banking notebook (in Japanese)
1926
125 11
Banking stubs (in Japanese)
1914
125 12
Banking booklets (in Japanese)
1919
125 13
Banking booklets (in Japanese)
1924-1929
125 14
Bank interest notes (in Japanese)
1942
125 15
Cash register roll receipts (in English)
1917-1918
125 16
Cash register ledger marked for the period 1931-1934 (in English)
1918-1932
125 17
Envelopes from cash received (in Japanese)
1918-1919
125 18
Cash register roll sheet (in English)
1923
125 19
Cash register roll memo (in English)
1923
125 20
Cash register ledgers (in English)
1929-1931
126 9-10
Check register booklets (in English)
1910-1911
125 21
Check register ledgers (in English)
1910-1914
125 22
Check register ledgers (in English)
1916-1920
125 23
Check registers (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1929
126 1
Check register ledgers (in English)
1924-1928
126 2
Check register ledgers (in English)
1925-1929
126 3
Ledger with check listings (in English)
1937 September-December
126 4
Checks and banking notes (in English)
1922-1929
126 5
Check stub booklets (in English and Japanese)
1908-1911
126 6
Check stub booklets (in English)
1909-1910
126 7
Check stub booklets (in English)
1909-1911
126 8
Check stub booklets (in English)
1910-1911
126 11
Check stub booklets (in English)
1912-1914
126 12
Check stub booklets (in English)
1914
126 13
Check stub booklets (in Japanese)
1921-1925
126 14
Check stub booklets (in English)
1924-1937
126 15
Check stub booklets (in English)
1925-1933
127 1
Check stub booklets (in Japanese)
1926-1934
127 2
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1910
127 3
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1910
127 4
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1911
127 5
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1911
127 6
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1911
127 7
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1912
127 8
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1912
127 9
Gift certificates for Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1912-1914
127 10
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1913
127 11
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1913
127 12
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1914
127 13
Deposit receipts from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1915
127 14
Yasui Bros. gift certificates and deposit receipts (in Japanese)
1916
127 15
Yasui Bros. gift certificates and deposit receipts (in Japanese)
1916-1918
127 16
Yasui Bros. gift certificates and deposit receipts (in Japanese)
1916-1918
128 1
Yasui Bros. gift certificates and deposit receipts (in Japanese)
1916-1918
128 2
Yasui Bros. gift certificates and deposit receipts (in Japanese)
1917-1918
128 3
Yasui Bros. deposit receipts, customer account statements, gift certificates (in Japanese)
1917-1918
128 4
"Records of deposit" from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1918-1919
128 5
"Records of deposit" from Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1920
128 6
Yasui Bros. deposit receipts (in Japanese)
1930-1941

Series 5:  Other services, organizations, and community activities, circa 1908-1941Return to Top

3.45 cubic feet, (2 record cartons, 1 oversize flat box, 1 document case, 1 slim document case, 1 oversize folder)

Records for other businesses and services that Masuo Yasui provided to fellow Japanese Americans are in both Japanese and English. They include his work as an employment agent, broker of land and real estate transactions, and his contracted roles as a life insurance salesman and ticket agent for multiple steamship companies offering trips to and from Japan. Other records document Masuo Yasui's assistance with legal disputes and official government documents, such as birth certificates, passports, and identity cards, and his founding of the Japanese Savings Association in Hood River. His work in the community is reflected in records of his membership in organizations such as the Japanese Association of Oregon and the Rotary Club, his assistance to the Japanese Consulate in Portland, and his fundraising for hospitals, churches and other charities.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 5.1: Employment and housing files
1909-1915
Box Folder
131 9
Masuo Yasui business cards for Japanese Employment office, Real Estate and Insurance assistance (in English)
undated
131 10
Masuo Yasui contract to be life insurance agent (in English)
1916
131 11
Yasui rooming house guest and payment register (in Japanese)
1909-1911
131 12
Yasui rooming house guest and payment register (in Japanese)
1912-1913
131 13
Yasui rooming house guest and payment register (in Japanese)
1913-1915
Subseries 5.2: Property and legal assistance files
1910-1940
Box Folder
131 14
Identity verification affidavits and related birth certificates for Japanese Americans (in English and Japanese)
1929-1940
131 15
Masuo Yasui assistance to other Japanese Americans regarding birth certificates and passports (in English)
1926-1932
131 16
Yasui Bros. requests for and blanks of U.S. passport forms (in English)
circa 1939
131 17
Blank U.S. Department of Justice Alien Registration forms (in English)
circa 1940
131 18
Foster Hotel (Portland) operating expenses showing Japanese businesses leasing space (in English)
1936-1938
131 19
Masuo Yasui assistance of Imai with fruit shipping contract (in English and Japanese)
1927
131 20
Toyoja Abe land deeds to Columbia Park (Hood River) to Yasui family and others (in English and Japanese)
1912, 1915
131 21
Land survey records for Kojikawa (in English)
circa 1924
131 22
H. Kajita land lease records (in English)
1916-1928
131 23
S. Kasaichi mortgage records and estate documents (in English and Japanese)
1911, 1922
131 24
G. Katayama estate documents (in English)
1922-1931
131 25
T. Sato lease of M. Furuya property (in English)
1926
131 26
Property records (deeds and leases) for other Japanese Americans (in English)
1910-1938
131 27
Legal complaint against Japanese farmers and Apple Growers Association (in English)
1939
131 28
Legal complaints and summons for Berrie vs. Hori, and Duthie and Co. vs. Yamaki (in English)
1922-1928
131 29
Assorted legal files for others, primarily Hirata and Nakamura (in Japanese and English)
circa 1932-1940
131 30
Masuo Yasui power of attorney documents for Washimi, Kuga, Tamura (in English)
1916-1938
131 31
Articles of incorporation for United Farmers Cooperative in Yakima, Washington (in English)
1938
131 32
Miscellaneous notes found with legal files (in Japanese and English)
circa 1928-1935
Subseries 5.3: Steamship ticket agent records
1912-1941
Box Folder
131 33
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line ticket agent contract with Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1913
131 34
NYK Line passenger and freight service fares and schedules (in English)
1914-1918, 1929-1933
131 35
NYK Line passenger lists, Seattle to Yokohama (in English)
1935-1938
131 36
NYK Line correspondence to Yasui Bros. regarding ticket sales commissions (in English with some Japanese)
1913-1915, 1940
131 37
NYK Line Yasui Bros. ticket agent stubs for trips sold from Seattle to Japan (in English)
1921-1930
133 1
NYK Line Yasui Bros. ticket agent order books for trips sold from Seattle to Japan (in English)
1932-1941
131 38
NYK Line monthly newsletter to ticket agents (in English)
1933-1935
131 39
NYK Line Travel Bulletin (newsletter) No. 37 (in English)
1928 July
131 40
NYK Line correspondence and news clipping (in Japanese)
undated
131 41
NYK Line promotional brochures (in English, some Japanese)
1929-1931
131 42
NYK Line promotional brochures (in English)
1932-1937, undated
131 43
NYK Line promotional materials for hotels in Japan, especially Nanmeikan Hotel, Hotel Kumamotoya, and Hotel Matsusakaya in Yokohama (in Japanese and English)
undated
133 2
NYK Line promotional posters and departure schedules (in English)
undated
133 3
NYK Line dinner menu (in English)
1930 June 5
131 44
NYK Line miscellaeneous promotional materials including images of third-class accommodations (in Japanese)
undated
133 4
NYK Line posters and pamphlets regarding travel to Japan, hotels, etc. (in English)
undated
131 45
NYK Line passage handbooks for ticket agents (in English)
1937-1938
132 1
NYK Line passage handbooks for ticket agents (in English)
1938
132 2
NYK Line passage handbooks for ticket agents (in English)
1939
132 3
NYK Line instructions and U.S. government forms for overseas travelers (in English)
undated
132 4
NYK Line luggage tags and labels (7 designs; in English)
undated
132 5
Osaka Shosen Kaisha (OSK) Line correspondence to Yasui Bros. regarding ticket sales and passengers (English and some Japanese)
1913-1916
132 6
OSK Line correspondence with Yasui Bros. regarding ticket sales and passengers (English and some Japanese)
1917-1918
133 5
OSK Line Yasui Bros. ticket agent books for trips sold (Seattle to Japan) (in English)
1913-1916
133 6-7
OSK Line Yasui Bros. ticket agent books for trips sold (Seattle to Japan) (in English)
1920-1930
132 7
OSK Line Yasui Bros. ticket agent books for trips sold (Seattle to Japan) (in English)
1923-1928
132 8
OSK Line letters to ticket agents regarding ticket sales for ships S.S. Africa, S.S. Arabia, S.S. Arizona, and S.S. Alabama (in English)
1926-1927
133 8
OSK Line blueprints/plans for third-class accommodations on S.S. Africa, S.S. Arabia, S.S. Arizona, and S.S. Alabama (in English)
1926-1927
132 9
OSK Line transpacific rates to cities in Japan (in English and Japanese)
undated
132 10
OSK Line Bulletin (in English and Japanese)
1929
132 11
OSK Line promotional brochures and luggage labels (in English)
1912, undated
132 12
Toyo Kisen Kaisha Line - Portland to Japan passenger service rates (in English)
undated
132 13
Canadian Pacific Steamships travel brochures and rates (in English)
1929-1930, 1939
132 14
McCormick Steamship Co. correspondence and domestic freight rates (in English)
1926-1927
132 15
American Mail Line - Yasui Bros. ticket agent order book for passenger tickets to Japan (in English)
1928-1932
132 16
Postcard from Kobe hotel to Masuo Yasui regarding transpacific departure dates (in Japanese)
1915
132 17
Assorted international travel brochures (in English with some Japanese)
undated
132 18
Assorted domestic travel brochures and maps, including Hood River and Oregon highways (in English)
undated
132 19
Unidentified printed documents regarding steamship travel (in Japanese, some English)
undated
Subseries 5.4: Japanese Savings Association files
1913-1921
Box Folder
132 20
Japanese Savings Association (JSA) annual corporate statement, license documents (English with some Japanese)
1913-1919
132 21
JSA corporate tax documents (in English)
1918-1920
132 22
JSA documents regarding dissolution of company (in English)
1920-1921
132 23
JSA Yasui Bros. receipt books (in English, some Japanese)
1914-1921
132 24
JSA Yasui Bros. receipt books (in English)
1915-1921
132 25
JSA Yasui Bros. receipt books (in English)
1917-1918
132 26
JSA Yasui Bros. receipt books and balance transfer documents (in English)
1918-1921
132 27
JSA stockholder records (all Japanese names)
1913-1914
132 28
JSA letterhead, stationery, envelopes (in English, some Japanese)
circa 1913-1921
Subseries 5.5: Japanese organization files
circa 1908-1941
Box Folder
132 29
Correspondence from Japanese Association of Oregon and Japanese Consulate office in Portland (in Japanese)
1913-1926
132 30
Census of Japanese population in Hood River Valley (most likely done for Japanese Consulate in Portland) (in English)
circa 1920
132 31
Japanese Association of Oregon board meeting minutes (in Japanese)
1914
132 32
Japanese Association of Oregon draft bylaws (in Japanese)
1924, 1928
133 9
Japanese Association of Oregon list of members (in Japanese)
1924
132 33
Japanese Association of Oregon list of members (in Japanese)
undated
132 34
Japanese Association of Oregon membership cards (in Japanese)
1910-1917
132 35
Japanese Association of Oregon membership cards, unidentified documents (in Japanese)
1914-1917
132 36
Japanese Association of Oregon membership cards, unidentified correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1918-1920
132 37
Japanese Association of Oregon membership cards, unidentified notes (in Japanese)
undated
132 38
Japanese Association of Oregon newsletter (in Japanese)
1927
133 10
Japanese Association of Oregon correspondence (in Japanese)
undated
134 1
Hood River Japanese American Association bylaws (in Japanese)
circa 1930
133 11
Hood River Japanese Farmer's Association newsletter, first issue, and list of farmers' assets in various Hood River Valley locations (in Japanese)
1914, 1923
134 2
Hood River Japanese cemetery or burial society financial and fundraising records, graves purchased (in English, some Japanese)
1939-1941
134 3
Miscellaneous Japanese American organization records (in Japanese)
circa 1908-1927
134 4
Japanese American Welfare Society accounting ledger (in English)
1926
134 5
Nisei Athletic Club baseball score book (in Japanese)
1932
134 6
Japanese Women's Society bank statement with Shidzuyo Yasui as treasurer (in English)
1935
Subseries 5.6: Other organization files
1930-1938
Box Folder
134 7
Rotary Club of Hood River pamphlets (in English
1930-1935
134 8
Rotary Club of Hood River newsletters, bulletin, convention resolutions (in English)
1932
134 9
Attendance list (likely Rotary Club of Hood River) (in English)
1934
134 10
Hood River Chamber of Commerce Annual Board of Directors report (in English)
1938
134 11
Portland Commercial Association list of overdue (membership?) payments (in Japanese)
undated
Subseries 5.7: Fundraising and charity files
circa 1910-1941
Box Folder
134 12
Community fundraising records for Independence Day event (in Japanese)
1914
134 13
Community lists of donors for Independence Day event and other unspecified causes (in Japanese)
1914
134 14
Community fundraising and application for auxiliary chapter of Red Cross in Hood River (in English)
1917
134 15
Hood River Hospital fundraising, records of Japanese American member contributions, fundraising (in English)
circa 1910-1920
Folder
Oversize 8
Fundraising chart for construction of civic auditorium and school (in Japanese)
undated
Box Folder
134 16
Community lists of Japanese names for fundraising and events (English with some Japanese)
circa 1918, undated
135 1
Donation records for Portland Japanese Methodist Church Association, for 100 year anniversary (in Japanese)
1921-1922
135 2
Receipts for Yasui building of Hood River Japanese Community Hall (in English)
1927-1928
135 3
Speech or event notes for Dr. Yutaka Minakuchi talk at Japanese Community Hall (in English)
1939
135 4
Japanese School of Hood River miscellaneous documents (in English)
circa 1920s-1930s
135 5
Miscellaneous fundraising documents (in Japanese)
undated
135 6
Ephemera - flyers for popular Japanese movie screening in Hood River, sponsored by the Pacific Society of Religious Education (in Japanese)
1941

Series 6:  Personal and family papers, 1904-1968Return to Top

7.82 cubic feet, (5 record cartons, 1 oversize flat box, 3 document cases)

A small amount of personal and family materials is included with the business records. This series consists of personal papers of the Yasui family, including family and personal correspondence and their ephemera and memorabilia. It is divided into four subseries: Subseries 6.1, Issei papers: Masuo Yasui, Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui), and Shidzuyo Miyake Yasui materials; Subseries 6.2, Nisei papers: Kay Yasui materials; Subseries 6.3, Nisei papers: Michi, Minoru "Min", Ray "Chop" (Tsuyoshi), Roku, Yuka, and Yuki Yasui materials; and Series 6.4, Other family papers. Much of this series is in Japanese, which has been reviewed and summarized by translators.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 6.1: Issei papers: Masuo Yasui, Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui), and Shidzuyo Miyake Yasui materials
Highlights include personal correspondence of and between Masuo Yasui, Shidzuyo Yasui, and Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) and some correspondence from their families in Japan, as well as Masuo Yasui's business awards, speeches, and drafts of his personal history written at the request of the Japanese consulate. The bulk of this subseries is in Japanese.
1911-1952
Box Folder
136 1
Personal and community correspondence to Masuo Yasui and Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in Japanese)
1911
137 1
Personal and community correspondence to Masuo Yasui, Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui), and Shidzuyo Miyake Yasui (in Japanese)
1911-1931
136 2
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui and Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in Japanese)
circa 1914-1941
136 3
Personal correspondence to and from Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1913-1926
136 4
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1913-1916
136 5
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1915
136 6
Personal letters sent to Masuo Yasui and Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in Japanese)
circa 1915-1939
136 7
Personal letter from Ganta Bansei to Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1917
136 8
Letter from Rev. Dr. K. Fuji to Masuo Yasui thanking him for apples (in English)
1917 November 4
136 9
Personal letters from employee of "The Powder Grill" to Masuo Yasui, expressing affection (in English)
1917
136 10-11
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui and Shidzuyo Yasui (in Japanese)
circa 1918-1932
136 12
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui and Shidzuyo Yasui (in Japanese)
circa 1918-1932
136 13
Personal correspondence to and from Shidzuyo Yasui (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1929
136 14
Personal correspondence to and from Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in Japanese)
1921-1928
136 15
Personal correspondence drafts by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in English)
1925, 1940
136 16
Masuo Yasui personal letters to W. H. Weber (in English)
1927-1928
136 17
Personal correspondence to Yasui Bros. (in Japanese)
1927, 1936
136 18
Personal correspondence to and from Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1930
136 19
Personal correspondence to and from Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1930-1935
136 20
Unfinished personal writing drafts by Masuo Yasui (in Japanese and English)
circa 1930-1939
136 21-22
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1931
136 23
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui and Shidzuyo Yasui (in English)
1932
136 24
Masuo Yasui personal correspondence (in English)
1933-1934
136 25
Letter from Japanese consulate announcing Masuo Yasui's award from the Japanese Industrial Association (in Japanese)
This item is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese.
1934
136 26
Personal correspondence to and from Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1935-1941
136 27
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui (in English)
1936
136 28
Masuo Yasui personal correspondence (in English)
1936-1937
136 29
Personal New Year's greeting cards and correspondence to Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
1937-1939
136 30
Masuo Yasui personal correspondence (in English and Japanese)
1938-1941
136 31
Letter from Japanese consulate asking Masuo Yasui to write his personal history (in Japanese)
This item is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese.
1939
136 32
Personal history drafts of Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
circa 1925-1939
136 33
Draft and final copy of Masuo's personal history statement (in Japanese)
This item is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese.
1939
137 8
Draft, possibly of speech by Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
undated
136 34
Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) application to reenter the U.S. from Japan (in English)
1929
136 35
Newspaper clippings about Masuo Yasui and related documents (in Japanese)
1935, undated
136 36
Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) report of personal and business assets to U.S. government and related notes (in English)
1942 March 11
136 37
Masuo Yasui membership certificate (in Japanese); Masuo Yasui Rotary Club cards (in English)
1929; 1932-1938
136 38
Masuo Yasui travel ephemera (in English)
circa 1935
136 39
Personal letter drafts by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Renichi Fujimoto to Michi Ando, December 1950.
1950-1952
136 40
Unfinished business and personal correspondence by Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui) (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1940
136 41
Unfinished letter drafts by Masuo Yasui (in Japanese)
circa 1917-1940
Subseries 6.2: Nisei papers: Kay Yasui materials
This subseries consists of the papers of Masuo Yasui and Shidzuyo Yasui's oldest son, Kay Yasui (1913-1931). It includes materials relating to his education and his work on the high school newspaper, The Hood River Guide, as well as catalogs that he collected. It also includes condolence letters sent to the family after his death, and materials relating to his funeral. This subseries contains materials in English and in Japanese.
1912-1931
Box Folder
136 42
Personal correspondence and notes (in English)
1927-1931
136 43
Correspondence with businesses; advertisements (in English)
1928
136 44
Personal correspondence to Masuo Yasui about Kay's enrollment in citizen's military training camp (in English)
1930 June 14
136 45
High school papers, records relating to school newspaper, The Hood River Guide (in English)
1930-1931
136 46
Stencil for header of school newspaper, The Hood River Guide
circa 1930
138 1
Personal telegrams to Yasui family after Kay Yasui's death (in English)
1931
138 2-5
Sympathy correspondence after Kay Yasui's death (in Japanese)
1931
138 6-7
Envelopes and flower tags from Kay Yasui's funeral (in English)
1931
138 8
Condolence letter from Kazue Yoshimo to Shidzuyo Yasui after Kay Yasui's death (in Japanese)
1931
138 9
Documents pertaining to Kay Yasui's funeral (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: List of Funeral Service Committee Members for the late Mr. Kay Yasui.
1931
138 10
Personal condolence letters to Masuo Yasui and Shidzuyo Yasui following Kay Yasui's death (in Japanese)
1931
137 2
List of attendees of Kay Yasui's funeral (in Japanese)
1931
138 11
Book catalogs (in English)
circa 1926-1928
138 12
Fishing catalogs (in English)
1926-1927
138 13
J. E. Willmarth fishing catalogs (in English)
circa 1926-1928
138 14
Firearm and outing equipment catalogs (in English)
1926-1928
138 15
Fishing catalogs from Shakespeare Co. (in English)
1926-1928
138 16
Fishing catalogs from Edward vom Hofe & Co. (in English)
1927-1928
138 17
Native American curio catalogs (in English)
1912; 1927
138 18-20
Unsorted catalogs and published material (in English)
circa 1912-1929
Subseries 6.3: Nisei papers: Michi, Minoru (Min), Ray "Chop" (Tsuyoshi), Roku, Yuka, and Yuki Yasui materials
This subseries contains the papers of Masuo and Shidzuyo's other children in the second generation of the Yasui family. Correspondence includes letters with their uncle Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui). Other materials include drafts of letters of recommendation for Minoru Yasui to the University of Oregon Law School, piano sheet music that Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui used in Hood River performances, materials relating to Yuki Yasui's death and funeral, and an invitation to Ray Yasui's wedding. This subseries contains materials in English and in Japanese.
1912-1946
Box Folder
138 21
Greeting and thank you cards for attendees of Yuki Yasui's funeral (in Japanese)
1922
138 22
Received envelopes for koden (funerary donations) for Yuki Yasui's funeral (in Japanese)
1922
138 23
Documents pertaining to Yuki Yasui's funeral (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Masuo Yasui speech for Yuki Yasui's funeral service, 1922
1922
138 24
Personal correspondence regarding Yuki Yasui's funeral (in English)
1922
137 3
List of attendees of Yuki Yasui's funeral (in Japanese)
1922
138 25
Letter from Tsuyoshi (Ray) Yasui to Hershey Gross about visit to Japan (in English)
1926 August 6
138 26
Personal correspondence between Renichi Fujimoto (Yasui), Michi Yasui, Minoru Yasui, and Roku Yasui (in Japanese and English)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Roku Yasui to Renichi and Matsuyo Fujimoto.
circa 1938-1941
138 27
Personal note to Michi Yasui from "Helen" (in English)
1941 July 6
138 28
Personal correspondence from Arline Moore to Ray Yasui (in English)
1946
139 1
Roku Yasui Boy Scout diary (in English)
1935
139 2
Minoru Yasui letter of recommendation drafts for University of Oregon Law School (in English) and personal history drafts (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Minoru Yasui resume.
circa 1937
139 3
Invitation to Tsuyoshi (Ray) Yasui's wedding (in Japanese)
This item is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese.
1939
139 4
Ray Yasui personality assessment (in English)
1929
139 5
Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui music lesson invoices (in English)
1935-1937
139 6
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1912-1919
139 7
Piano sheet music used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
circa 1915
137 4
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1920-1929
139 8
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1931-1932
139 9
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1934-1935
139 10-11
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1936
139 12
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1937-1938
139 13
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1938-1939
139 14
Piano music books used by Michi Yasui and Yuka Yasui (in English)
1940-1943
Subseries 6.4: Other family papers and ephemera
This subseries contains general family correspondence, brochures, ephemera, religious publications, posters of paintings, watercolor paintings by an unknown artist, and school textbooks. This subseries contains materials in English and in Japanese.
1904-1968
Box Folder
139 15
Personal correspondence to and from various family members (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Shidzuyo Miyake to Renichi Fujimoto, 1910 July 1
circa 1910-1940
139 16
Personal correspondence during Yasui family visit to Japan (in Japanese)
1926
139 17
Yasui family personal correspondence (in Japanese)
An item in this folder is viewable online, with translations in English and modern Japanese: Letter from Yasuo Yasui to Kei Yasui.
circa 1926-1934
139 18
Yasui family personal correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1927-1940
139 19
Personal correspondence between various family members (in Japanese and English)
1935
139 20
Personal correspondence and notes (in Japanese)
1941
139 21
Personal correspondence about family matters (in Japanese)
1944
139 22
Personal letter drafts (in Japanese)
1933
139 23
Mailing address notes (in English)
circa 1938-1942
139 24
Personal letter to M. Morita, care of F. L. Davidson (in Japanese)
1915
139 25-26
Unsorted personal correspondence (in Japanese)
circa 1915-1936
139 27
Gift log (in English and Japanese)
circa 1920-1939
139 28
Speech drafts (in Japanese)
circa 1912-1940
139 29
Received envelopes for koden (funerary donations) for Yuki and Kay, (in Japanese)
circa 1922-1931
139 30
Lists of attendees and donors for family funerals, including those for Shinataro Yasui, Yuki Yasui, and Kay Yasui (in Japanese)
circa 1915-1931
139 31
Record book for construction of a village in Japan (in Japanese)
1911
139 32
Newspaper clipping about need for the U.S. and Japan to strengthen their friendship (in Japanese)
circa 1935
139 33
Assorted newspaper clippings (in English)
1935-1968
139 34
Personal history of Gohei Tsutsumi (in Japanese)
undated
139 35
Baseball score book for various Hood River Valley teams (in English)
1936
140 1
Catalog of Y. Kagiya fireworks (in English)
circa 1915
140 2
Desk calendar (in English)
1917
140 3
Concert tickets (in English)
1929
140 4
Mt. Hood Railroad Company timetables (in English)
1931
140 5
Brochure for Hiroshima Jogakuin University (in English)
1938
140 6
Mills College, California commencement program (in English)
1939
140 7
Brochure for Japan Pavilion at Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California (in English)
1939
140 8
Defense Industries job advertisement brochure (in English)
circa 1942
137 5
Watercolor paintings by unknown artist
1962
137 9
Black and white painting of scenery in Japanese style by unknown artist
undated
137 6
Posters of paintings in Japanese and European styles
undated
140 9
Scrapbook of postcards and photographs of sights and statuary in Japan
undated
140 10
Religious flyers, newsletters, and correspondence (in English)
1925-1952
140 11-12
Oregon Sectional Young People's Christian Conference files (in English)
1937
140 13
Church testimonial of Rikichi Maeda (in Japanese)
1940
140 14
Hymn book and "Christ and Japan" reprint (in Japanese)
1904, 1934
140 15-16
Gospel and New Testament booklets (in English)
1920-1929
140 17
New Testament reprints (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1939
140 18
Religious reprints and notes (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1939
137 7
Issue of The War Cry with child's pencil scribblings (in English)
1926
140 19-20
Booklets from Mauso Yasui (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1939
140 21
Prayer books (in English)
1936-1937
140 22
Religious books (in Japanese)
circa 1950-1959
140 23
Yasui Christmas card mailing lists (in English)
1934-1941
140 24-25
Received Christmas cards (in Japanese)
1925-1926
141 1
Received Christmas cards (in English and Japanese)
1925-1926
141 2-3
Received Christmas cards (in Japanese)
1929
141 4
Received Christmas cards (in English)
circa 1935-1940
141 5
Received Christmas cards (in English and Japanese)
1938
141 6
Received Christmas cards (in English and Japanese)
1938
141 7-8
Received New Year's cards (in English and Japanese)
1938
141 9-11
Received Christmas cards (in English and Japanese)
1939
141 12-13
Received Christmas cards (in English and Japanese)
1940
141 14
New Year's greeting cards to Masuo Yasui and Shidzuyo Yasui (in Japanese)
1940
141 15
Received Christmas and New Year's cards (in English and Japanese)
1940-1941
142
31 school textbooks (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1939
143
25 school textbooks (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1939
144
39 school textbooks (in Japanese)
circa 1920-1939

Series 7:  Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) files, 1968-1990Return to Top

2.9 cubic feet, (3 record cartons, 1 document case)

This is the only series that entirely postdates World War II. It contains correspondence and records reflecting the involvement of Masuo Yasui's youngest son, Homer Yasui, and his wife, Miyuki Yasui, in the Japanese American Citizens League in the 1970s and 1980s, when Homer led the Portland chapter. The series include records for conventions and community events, materials relating to the establishment of the Minoru Yasui Memorial Fund, and lobbying efforts made to Congress for redress from the U.S. government for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. These materials had been housed in binders and are in original order; most folder titles in the container list were retained from the donor's binder and folder titles. Materials in this series are in English.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
141 16-17
Homer Yasui reports, memos, and notes for JACL Awards
1968-1982
141 18
JACL picnic planning committee files
1972
141 19
Reprints regarding Japanese American congressional and judicial hearings
1972-1987
145 1-2
Portland JACL 1973 Book 1 memos, correspondence, and notes
1973
145 3-4
Portland JACL 1973 Book 2 memos, correspondence, and notes
1973
145 5-6
Portland JACL 1973 Book 3 memos, correspondence, and notes
1973
145 7
JACL Sapporo booklet
1973
145 8
1973 Issei Appreciation Honored Guests lists
1973
145 9
Issei Appreciation Financial Record committee reports
1973-1974
145 10
Issei Appreciation bills and receipts
1973-1977
145 11
Issei Appreciation Checking Account bank statements
1973-1978
145 12-13
Homer Yasui memos and notes for 1974 JACL Convention nominations
1974
145 14
Correspondence and meeting memos
1974
145 15
JACL Tshirts inventory notes
1974
145 16
T-Shirts notes and invoices
1974
145 17
Assorted JACL proposal summary forms, cost reports, bylaws, and memos
1974
145 18
Homer Yasui memos and planning files for 1974 JACL Convention
1974
145 19
JACL PNWDC meeting minutes, memos, and newspaper clippings
1974-1975
145 20
Portland JACL Budget Committee files
1975
145 21
Assorted JACL campaign files, correspondence
1976
145 22
Nikkei Community Graduation Banquet 1976 Achievement Awards school reports and correspondence
1976
145 23
JACL election files
1976
145 24
Swine Flu Clinic vaccine posters and memos
1976
145 25
PNWDC JACL Vice Governor correspondence and memos
1976
146 1-2
JACL REPA CAAMP reparations campaign files
1976-1977
146 3
Japanese American Community Graduation program and speech transcript
1979
146 4
J/A Relocation WW2 PSU Summer Session June 19, 1979 program and notes
1979 June
146 5
Speakers Bureau notes
1979 April 16
146 6
Mickey Yasui planning files for Asian/Pacific Heritage Celebration
1980
146 7
Portland JACL Roster mailing lists
1980
146 8
Jim Tsujimura campaign files
1980
146 9
Jim Tsujimura campaign victory dinner correspondence, notes
1980
146 10-11
Portland JACL 1980 Book 1 correspondence and memos
1980
146 12-13
Portland JACL 1980-81 Book 2 correspondence and memos
1980-1981
146 14
Portland JACL 1980-81 Book 3 correspondence and notes
1980-1981
146 15
PNWDC-JACL II meeting minutes and memos
1980-1983
146 16
Testimony of Japanese American Citizens League National Committee for Redress
1981
146 17
JACL redress support pamphlet
circa 1980-1987
146 18
Handbook for JACL president
1981
146 19
Portland JACL membership lists
1981
146 20
Pan American conference files
1981
146 21
Handbook for Portland JACL president
1981
146 22
JACL USA Pan American conference files
1981
146 23
Pan American Nikkei Conference correspondence and registration files
1981
146 24
PNWDC JACL V memos, event flyers, and reports
1981-1983
146 25-26
PNWDC-JACL III correspondence and memos
1981-1983
147 1
Testimony of Japanese American Citizens League National Committee for Redress
1982
147 2
Miyuki Yasui JACL nucelar weapons correspondence, pamphlets
1982
147 3-4
JACL National board files
1982
147 5-6
27th JACL Convention Gardena notes, budget files, and correspondence
1982
147 7
Awards and Recognitions Portland Chapter correspondence and notes
1982-1983
147 8-9
PNWDC-JACL I memos and membership lists
1982-1985
147 10-11
Coram Nobis case statements
1983
147 12
United Nations Folkfest advertisements and correspondence
1983
147 13
PNWDC Yasuhara-Governor 1984-1985 meeting minutes, memos, and notes
1983-1984
147 14-15
Portland JACL Membership lists and correspondence
1984-1986
147 16
Portland JACL Membership lists
1984-1988
147 17
1973 Issei Appreciation Financial Records bank statements
1985-1988
148 1
Nominations for JACL Convention memos
1986
148 2
U.S. Supreme Court hearing briefs
1986
148 3
U.S. District Judge Donald Vorhees decisions regarding Gordon Hirabayashi vs. United States coram nobis petition
1986
148 4 1987
148 5
Minoru Yasui Memorial Fund committee lists and correspondence
1987-1988
148 6
U.S. Supreme Court hearing briefs
1987
148 7
Japanese American film catalogs
1988-1990
148 8
PNWD Bylaws revisions
1989-1990
148 9
Portland JACL Japanese Movies correspondence and contracts
1990

Series 8:  Publications, circa 1910-1979Return to Top

34.03 cubic feet, (13 record cartons, 27 oversize flat boxes, 1 document case)

This series consists of magazines, newspapers, and other published material that the Yasui family possessed, dating from approximately 1910 to 1979. All magazines are in Japanese, while the newspapers in this series are a mix of Japanese-language, bilingual English and Japanese, and some English-language publications. The newspapers include several titles published in Japan and in the United States (but none published in the camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II). For some newspaper titles, multiple issues are bound together with string. Additional published materials include guides, manuals, and pamphlets relating to the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 8.1: Japanese language magazines
1918-1958
Box
149
The Fujin Club (6 issues)
1936-1938
151
Fujin Sekai (2 issues)
1929; 1933
149
The Fujin-to-Shuyo (42 issues)
1924, 1934-1939
150
Fujo-kai (24 issues)
1933-1938
151
Fujo-kai (13 issues)
1933-1938
151
The Gondai (2 issues)
1928
Folder
156 1
The Hinode (1 supplemental issue)
1939 January 1
152
The Jitsugyo-no-Nippon (29 issues)
1918-1925, 1934-1940
152
The Jitsugyo-no-Sekai (1 issue)
1938
153
The King (29 issues)
1932-1940
154
The King (9 issues)
1937-1941
149
Reader's Digest (8 issues)
1957-1958
154
Shufu-no-Tomo (11 issues)
1935-1938
151
Shufu-no-Tomo (4 issues)
1936, 1940
Folder
156 2
The Tokyo (1 issue)
1926 August 1
155
The Yuben (26 issues)
1933-1940
154
The Yuben (2 issues)
1933
Folder
156 3-6
Scientific and religious publications
1920-1929
152
Unsorted magazines
1931-1939
Folder
156 7-12
Unsorted magazines
circa 1918-1952
157 1-12
Unsorted magazines
circa 1918-1952
158 1-10
Unsorted magazines
circa 1918-1952
159 1-11
Unsorted magazines
circa 1918-1952
160 1-12
Unsorted magazines
circa 1918-1952
Subseries 8.2: Newspapers
1917-1979
Box Folder
161 1
Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)
1946 February 2
162 1
Blaine Memorial Methodist Church Weekly Bulletin (in Japanese)
1960 October-November
161 3
The Book Review Press (in Japanese)
1953 April, 1953 December
162 1
The Chicago Shimpo (in Japanese)
1946-1947
161 2
Christian News (in Japanese)
1917 July-November
161 1
Chubi Jiho (in Japanese)
circa 1936-1939, 1952 July
161 1
Chugoku Mimpo (in Japanese)
1935 October-November, 1952 June-July
163 1
The Coast Times (in English and Japanese)
1936 October, 1939 September-November
164
The Colorado Times (in English and Japanese)
1951, 1955
165
The Colorado Times (in English and Japanese)
1945-1946, 1948 October
Folder
162 1
Dai-Kobe (in Japanese)
1936 January 1
161 3
Godo Shimbun (in Japanese)
1939 June 23
162 2
Hokubei Jiji (North American Times) (in Japanese)
1929, 1934
161 3
Hokubei Manichi (North American Daily) (in English and Japanese)
1955 August 5
166
Hokubei Manichi (North American Daily) (in English and Japanese)
1950 June-October
Folder
162 2
Hokubei Shimpo (in Japanese)
1946 March 16
162 2
Hood River County Sun (in English)
1946 April
162 2
The Japanese American Christian Advocate (in English and Japanese)
1932 March 15
167
Japanese American News (in English and Japanese)
1939-1951
Folder
163 2
The Japanese American Review (in Japanese)
1935 January-February
162 2
Japanese Spirit and Character Train book advertisement (in Japanese)
1938
162 2
Kadobue (Horn) (in Japanese)
1952 August 10
162 2
Koyasan-Shinoin-Jiho (Time Bulletin) (in Japanese)
1952 October 15
162 3
Maboroshi-no-Tsubasa (in Japanese)
1946 October-November 1946
161 3
The Mainichi
1946 February 9, 1956 May 4-5
162 3
The Minpon (in Japanese)
1949 January 1
161 3
Naikai Shimbun (in Japanese)
1952 June-July
168
New Japanese American News (in Japanese)
1947-1949
167
New Japanese American News (in English and Japanese)
1939-1951
169
New Japanese American News (in English and Japanese)
1950 September-December 1950
170
New Japanese American News (1950 issues in Japanese, 1951 issues in English and Japanese, 1953-1956 issues in English)
1950-1956
171
New Japanese American News (1960 issues in English, all other issues in Japanese)
1947-1948, 1960
Folder
161 1
New World Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)
1936 January 12
162 3
News of Redeem National Bonds (in Japanese)
1952 September 29
172
The Nichi Bei Times (in English and Japanese)
1946-1953
Folder
161 4
Nichibei (in Japanese)
1939-1940
161 3
The Nippon Dokusho Shimbun (in Japanese)
1953 December
173
The North American Post (in Japanese)
1955, 1957
174
The North American Post (in Japanese)
1946-1955
175
The North American Post (in Japanese)
1961 January-May 1961
Folder
163 3
The Oregon News (in Japanese)
161 5
The Oriental Trade Journal (in English and Japanese)
circa 1935 October-1936 February, 1938 November-December
161 6
Osaka Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)
1936 August-October, 1939 June
161 6
Osaka Jiji Shimpo (in Japanese)
1939 May-June
163 4
Pacific Citizen (in English)
1974 December, 1979 January 19
162 3
Portland Epworth Methodist Church (in Japanese)
1952 October 17
176
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1944-1945
177
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1946 June-December
178
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1946 January-June, 1948 September
179
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1947 January-July
180
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1947 July-December
181
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1948 January-July
182
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1948 May-November
183
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1948 November-1949 March
184
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1949 March-May, 1950 June-August
185
The Rocky Shimpo (in English and Japanese)
1950 September-December
Folder
162 3
Seattle Japanese Methodist Church Weekly Bulletin (in Japanese)
1951-1952
162 3
Seattle Methodist Church Weekly Bulletin (in Japanese)
1952 October 18
172
The Seihoku Nippo (The Northwest Daily) (in Japanese)
1948-1949
Folder
162 3
Shin-Sei-Mei (New Life) (in Japanese)
1952 September 1
162 3
Spokane Methodist Church Weekly Bulletin (in Japanese)
1952 July 13, 1952 August 13
162 3
Sukui (Relief) (in Japanese)
1933-1936
163 1
Pages from The Sunday Oregonian (in English)
1939 September 14
162 4
Taihoku Nippo (Great Northern Daily News) (in Japanese)
1937-1938
163 1
The Taishu (in Japanese)
1934 August 25
162 4
The Toki-no-Koe (The War Cry) (in Japanese)
1933-1936
161 7
The Tokyo Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)
1933
186
The Utah Nippo (in English and Japanese)
1945-1946
187
The Utah Nippo (in English and Japanese)
1946-1947, 1951-1956
Folder
161 3
The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese)
1956 January-February
Subseries 8.3: Other publications
circa 1910-1942
Box Folder
188 1
Pamphlets about Japanese-Chinese relations (in English)
1937
188 2
Book, probably about Second Sino-Japanese War (in Japanese)
circa 1940
188 3
International Conciliation report (in English)
1943
188 4
Travel booklet (in Japanese)
undated
188 5-15
Guides and manuals (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1940
189 1-4
Guides and manuals (in Japanese)
circa 1910-1940
189 5
Equipment instruction and manufacturing manuals; shipping directory (in English)
1920-1929
189 6
Assorted guides, manuals and reports (in English)
circa 1924-1942

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Agriculture--Oregon--Hood River Valley
  • Fruit growers--Oregon--Hood River Valley
  • General stores--Oregon--Hood River
  • Immigrant business enterprises--Oregon--Hood River
  • Japanese American business enterprises--Oregon--Hood River
  • Japanese American families--Oregon--Hood River
  • Japanese Americans--Correspondence
  • Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
  • Japanese Americans--Oregon--Hood River Valley
  • Japanese Americans--Oregon--Societies, etc.
  • Orchards--Oregon--Hood River Valley

Corporate Names

  • Japan. Sōryōjikan (Portland, Or.)
  • Japanese American Citizens' League. Portland Chapter--Records and correspondence
  • Yasui Bros. Co. (Hood River, Or.)--Records and correspondence

Family Names

  • Yasui family

Form or Genre Terms

  • business records
  • correspondence
  • printed ephemera
  • publications (documents)

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Fujimoto, Renichi, 1883-1965 (contributor)
    • Yasui, Masuo (creator)
    Corporate Names
    • Apple Growers Association (Hood River, Or.) (creator)
    • Mid-Columbia Vegetable Growers Association (Hood River, Or.) (creator)
    Family Names
    • Yasui family (creator)