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Japanese Railroad Workers

A crew of Japanese contract railroad workers sitting on the railroad and on the top of a felled tree pose for a photo.

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Between 1890 and 1907, about 132,000 young Japanese men came to the continental United States. Many, like Masuo Yasui’s father and brothers, and the men pictured here, built the railroads that crossed western and Rocky Mountain states.

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Kinsey, Clark

Japanese Railroad Workers

ca. 1893-1945

Photograph

Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States

https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/clarkkinsey/id/678/rec/1

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Kinsey, Clark

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University of Washington

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ca. 1893-1945

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Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States

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Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, Module 2

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Photograph

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https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/clarkkinsey/id/678/rec/1

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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection, PH Coll 516

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University of Washington

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Kinsey, Clark

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University of Washington

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ca. 1893-1945

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Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States

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Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, Module 2

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Photograph

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https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/clarkkinsey/id/678/rec/1

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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection, PH Coll 516

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University of Washington

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45.02.IMG.033

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