Japanese in Utah

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Title Japanese in Utah
Collection Mss C 239; Peoples of Utah Photograph Collection
Identifier 39222001496228.tif
Photo Number C-239, No. 79, Box 5
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date of Photograph 1917
Date 1917
Subject Ethnic groups--Utah; Japanese--Utah
Other Subject Baseball players
Spatial Coverage Japanese Smelter Camp, Tooele (Utah)
Geographic Coordinates 40.540465-112.269777
Description Caption: My father is on the extreme right with his arm around one of the Japanese baseball players. I do not know who the other Japanese are. This snapshot was taken at the Tooele Japanese Smelter Camp some miles away from the city proper about 1917. My father who was the camp "boss" organized a baseball team as he loved the sport as a recreational activity for the camp. At the peak of the working season, there were several hundred Isseis in the camp -- many of them or most of them single and with time hanging heavily on their hands. Dad had pool tables set up for them and arranged to have Japanese musicians or performers come in from Salt Lake City who were touring in the area to entertain the men. The baseball team managed by my father would play Caucasian teams in the local area.
Rights Management Digital Image (c) 2008 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Peoples of Utah Photograph Collection, 1975-1977
Source Format Print Photograph
Source Size 5.5 inches x 3.7 inches
Collection Compiler Helen Papanikolas was the collector and donor of the entire Peoples of Utah Photograph Collection, as well as the editor of a book with the same title.
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000 pixels on the long axis. Archival resolution: 3029 x 3865
Scanned By Li Xu
Collection Information http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/C00239/C0239.XML
ARK ark:/87278/s6rr1x1x
Setname dha_pu
ID 508187
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr1x1x