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Farm life -- Oregon -- Tualatin

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn

 Collection
Identifier: SR 3567
Abstract

Oral history interview with sisters Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn, conducted by Jane Leung Larson in two sessions, on April 9 and April 26, 1999. Hing and Chinn discuss their family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon. Hing also talks about playing in a band whose members were all Chinese American women, and about learning to fly with pilot Tex Rankin in Portland during the 1930s.

Dates: 1999 April 9-26

Oral history interview with Art O. Sasaki

 Collection
Identifier: SR 959
Abstract

Oral history interview with Art O. Sasaki conducted by Etsu Osaki in two sessions, on September 9 and September 16, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Sasaki discusses his early life as a second-generation Japanese American in Tualatin before World War II; his experiences while incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Minidoka War Relocation Center during the war; and his experiences working on the family farm in Tualatin.

Dates: 1992 September 9-16