"Phone book red exercise book", Moichiro Tonomura; 1989

"Phone book red exercise book", Moichiro Tonomura; 1989

Description

Title Proper "Phone book red exercise book", Moichiro Tonomura; 1989
Date(s) 1989
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains a red exercise book used as an address book. The names listed are of Japanese origin, suggesting that Tonomura used this notebook to contact Japanese Canadians who returned to the west coast of British Columbia. On the interior of the notebook the following is written by hand: “Moichiro Tonomura Sat May 26, 1989”.
Name of creator
The Tonomura family created these records.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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Title

"Phone book red exercise book", Moichiro Tonomura; 1989
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Terminology

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