First Edition. Perhaps the most extensive photographic record of the entrepreneurial Japanese American middle class before the Second World War, illustrated with more than 500 full-page halftone photographs of families, farms, shops, restaurants, and hotels. The photos are captioned with information about the people depicted and their business. Many of.....

A full standing portrait of the second Chinese woman to study medicine in the United States; she went on to be one of the first Western trained physicians in China. This albumen print on a thin photographer's mount dates from Hü King Eng's four years as an undergraduate at Ohio.....

Ella May Clemmons (who changed the spelling of her surname to suggest an association with Mark Twain) married the Chinese immigrant merchant Wong Sun Fue following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Together they ran the curio shop Dug from the Ruins in Chinatown, selling artifacts from damaged buildings and Chinese.....

An apparently unrecorded Chinese American work and one of the earliest works in English presenting Chinese American culture in a positive light. The publisher was a successful Chinese immigrant merchant, and the unidentified author seems to be writing from a Chinese American point of view. The author confronts the anti-Chinese.....

An authorized reprint of the standard viewbook of the PPIE, with added Japanese-language captions and a new introduction by Taishi Hiroshi. The captions sometimes replace the original English-language captions, sometimes translate them, and sometimes offer additional information specifically aimed at a Japanese audience. "Published exclusively for Aoki Taisedo Book Co.....

A rare manuscript document from the Japanese immigrant community in Utah. In this identity document, the secretary of the Japanese Association of Utah (Yuta Nihonjinkai), Suzuki Gorokichi, confirms the identity of Endo Jotaro, a copper miner at the Bingham mine. The document is approved and stamped by the consul-general in.....

First Edition. A very scarce biographical directory of the Japanese elite in and around Seattle, Washington. The introduction notes that while the title suggests the book encompasses all of the United States, in fact, the book is limited to the Seattle area. This book includes biographical sketches of more than.....

First Edition. An autobiographical account of Japanese theater pioneers Kawakami Otojiro and Kawakami Sadayakko's first tour of the West, including the United States, London, and Paris in 1899 and 1900. On the West Coast part of their tour, the Kawakamis' troupe performed for mostly Japanese audiences, but as they moved.....

A rare surviving 19th century return certificate prepared for a Chinese merchant in Portland, Oregon. Under the 1894 Chinese Exclusion laws, two non-Chinese persons had to swear to the identity and employment of any Chinese national who planned to visit China and come back to the United States. Beginning in.....