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         <titlestmt>
            <titleproper>Guide to the Oral History Interview With George Iseri <date encodinganalog="date" era="ce">1971</date>
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            <titleproper altrender="nodisplay" type="filing">Iseri (George) Oral History Interview</titleproper>
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            <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries</publisher>
            <date normal="2007" encodinganalog="date">©2007 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)</date>
            <address>
               <addressline>Seattle, WA 98195</addressline>
            </address>
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         <langusage>Finding aid written in 
		  <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="language" scriptcode="latn">English</language>.</langusage>
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            <corpname>University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections</corpname>
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         <unitid countrycode="us" repositorycode="wauar">2467 (Accession No. 2467-001)</unitid>
         <origination>
            <persname role="interviewee" encodinganalog="100">Iseri, George</persname>
         </origination>
         <unittitle type="collection">Oral history interview with George
		  Iseri</unittitle>
         <unitdate type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1971">1971</unitdate>
         <physdesc>
            <extent>2 sound cassettes (circa 1
		  hour)</extent>
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         <langmaterial>Collection materials are in 
		<language langcode="eng" scriptcode="latn" encodinganalog="546">English</language>.</langmaterial>
         <abstract encodinganalog="5203_$a">Oral history
		  interview of a Japanese American who was interned at Tule Lake internment camp
		  during World War II</abstract>
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         <p>Mr. Iseri was born in Thomas, Washington on April 23, 1920. He lived
		  there until 1941 after attending Thomas grade school and graduating from Auburn
		  High School in 1937. He then went to business college for two years. He worked
		  at his brother Tom's wholesale distribution store. Mr. Iseri married on
		  November 5, 1941 and moved to Kent. He describes the evacuation dividing lines
		  and departure times. Japanese in the Kent-Sumner area went to Pinedale,
		  California (9 miles north of Fresno), Seattle area Japanese went first to
		  Puyallup and Pasco, and Yakima-area Japanese went to Portland. Mr. Iseri
		  describes the evacuation at Tule Lake, California, where he was paid $16 a
		  month as a Junior Marketing Specialist. There were 15,000 people in the camp
		  and a lot of black-marketing and stealing was going on. The Japanese did not
		  resist orders because they did not want to bring shame on anyone. He was asked
		  to volunteer for the service, but he said he would do so only if his family
		  were allowed to return home. At this time Tom Iseri was a partner in Western
		  Producers Exchange and somehow arranged a contract for the family to go to
		  Weiser, Idaho. George Iseri share-cropped for two years with Charley Joseph and
		  in 1945 he moved to Ontario, Oregon to work in the trucking business and
		  farming. In 1946 he quit farming and went into the radio-appliance business
		  until he was bought out. From 1950-1963 he was in the insturance business with
		  his brother Mun. After Mun died in August 1966, George brought out Mun's share
		  of the insurance business and travel agency.</p>
      </bioghist>
      <scopecontent>
         <p>Tape recorded interview conducted by Dee Goto on 3 Apr 1971.</p>
         <p>Mr. Iseri discusses events in his life between 1920-1971. He describes
		  the Japanese American evacuation and the Tule Lake internment camp in
		  detail.</p>
      </scopecontent>
      <altformavail>
         <p> 
            <extref show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/ohc,282">Listen to the audio
			 recording</extref>  of this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections
		  site.</p>
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         <p>Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special
		  Collections.</p>
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      <userestrict encodinganalog="540" id="a15">
         <p>Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of
		  Washington Libraries.</p>
      </userestrict>
      <acqinfo encodinganalog="541" id="a19">
         <p>Donated by George Iseri, 4/3/1971</p>
      </acqinfo>
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         <subject source="uwsc">Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)</subject>
         <persname encodinganalog="600" role="subject">Iseri, George--Interviews</persname>
         <persname role="interviewer" encodinganalog="700" altrender="sync" source="lcnaf" rules="aacr2">Goto, Dee</persname>
         <corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610">Tule Lake Relocation Center</corpname>
         <subject source="lcsh" encodinganalog="650">Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945</subject>
         <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Japanese Americans</subject>
         <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Oral Histories</subject>
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