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Yasui family

 Family

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Bernard B. Kliks papers relating to Minoru Yasui and University of Oregon Law School reunions

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 920
Abstract

Correspondence between Bernard B. Kliks (1915-2001) and Minoru Yasui (1916-1986), clippings about Yasui compiled by Kliks, and Kliks' correspondence regarding reunions of the University of Oregon Law School class of 1939. Kliks was an attorney in Portland, Oregon; he and Yasui attended the University of Oregon Law School together. Yasui was a Japanese American lawyer who challenged the constitutionality of a curfew placed on Japanese Americans during World War II.

Dates: circa 1938-1993

Yasui Brothers business records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2949
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1904-1990; Majority of material found within 1908-1942

Yasui family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 949
Abstract This collection includes correspondence, personal papers, and photographs of three generations of the Yasui family. Major topics represented in the collection include the first (Issei) generation’s immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s; the family's business and community activities in Hood River, Oregon, through 1942; the forced removal and incarceration of Yasui family members during World War II; and advocacy for redress and on behalf of Japanese American history by members of the...
Dates: 1873-2023; Majority of material found within 1910-1995

Yasui test record

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2949Test
Abstract

Records of the Yasui Brothers Company store in Hood River, their farms and orchards at Willow Flat and Mosier, Oregon, and other businesses run by Masuo and Renichi Yasui from approximately 1908 until World War II incarceration. Also includes a small amount of family and personal records.

Dates: 1901-1987

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General stores -- Oregon -- Hood River 2
Japanese American families -- Oregon -- Hood River 2
Japanese Americans 2
Japanese Americans -- Correspondence 2