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Tall timber : Japanese community, experience, and destiny in Washington's lumber industry

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Author: McAbee, Jesse Clark

Date: Fall 2008

Geographic Location: Washington

Material Type: magazine article

Abstract: "Between 1901 and 1908 more immigrants from Japan - over 20,000 - entered the United States through Seattle and Portland than from any other country. In the first decade of the 20th century, 20 percent of Washington's Japanese immigrant population was working in the timber industry."

Author: McAbee, Jesse Clark

Role: Author

Date: Fall 2008

Corporation: Northern Pacific Railway; Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)

Topic: Japanese Americans; Lumber camps; Employees

Geographic Location: Washington

Material Type: magazine article

Physical Description: photographs; maps

Source Title: Columbia

Volume: 22

Issue: 3

Pages: 12-16

Abstract: "Between 1901 and 1908 more immigrants from Japan - over 20,000 - entered the United States through Seattle and Portland than from any other country. In the first decade of the 20th century, 20 percent of Washington's Japanese immigrant population was working in the timber industry."