| Title |
Hirai, Alice OH16_005 |
| Creator |
Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program |
| Contributors |
Hirai, Alice, Interviewee; Rands, Lorrie, Interviewer; Johnson, Melissa, Interviewer |
| Collection Name |
Immigrants at the Crossroads-Ogden City Oral Histories |
| Description |
Immigrants at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories, photographs and artifacts related to the immigrant populations that helped shape the cultural and economic climate of Ogden. This project will expand the contributions made by Ogden's immigrant populations: the Dutch, Italian and Greek immigrants who came to work on the railroad and the Japanese who arrived after World War II from the West Coast and from internment camps. |
| Abstract |
The following includes the transcript and a video clip from an oral history interview with Alice Hirai. |
| Image Captions |
Alice Hirai |
| Subject |
Immigration; Japanese; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA |
| Date |
2014 |
| Date Digital |
2017 |
| Temporal Coverage |
1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014 |
| Item Size |
34p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 video disc: digital; 4 3/4 in. |
| Medium |
Oral History |
| Spatial Coverage |
Ogden (Utah) |
| Type |
Text; Image/MovingImage |
| Conversion Specifications |
Filmed using a Sony HDR-CX430V digital video camera. Sound was recorded with a Sony ECM-AW3(T) bluetooth microphone. Transcribed using WAVpedal 5 Copyrighted by The Programmers' Consortium Inc. Digitally reformatted using Adobe Acrobat Xl Pro. |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes, please credit University Archives, Stewart Library; Weber State University. |
| Source |
Hirai, Alice OH16_005; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives |
| Format |
application/pdf; video/mp4 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6rtxqnx |
| Setname |
wsu_webda_oh |
| ID |
104207 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6rtxqnx |
| Title |
Video Clip of Interview with Alice Hirai |
| Creator |
Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program |
| Contributors |
Hirai, Alice, Interviewee; Rands, Lorrie, Interviewer; Johnson, Melissa, Interviewer |
| Description |
Immigrants at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories, photographs and artifacts related to the immigrant populations that helped shape the cultural and economic climate of Ogden. This project will expand the contributions made by Ogden's immigrant populations: the Dutch, Italian and Greek immigrants who came to work on the railroad and the Japanese who arrived after World War II from the West Coast and from internment camps. |
| Image Captions |
Alice Hirai |
| Biographical/Historical Note |
The following is a video clip from an oral history interview with Alice Hirai. "Then when the war was ended--see I didn't know this, too, because nobody talked about it--but we were given twenty-five dollars each and when they closed the gates of the camps we were all homeless; we didn't have a place to sleep or a place to eat. Some of us were fortunate; they had charitable organizations and had us arranged to go to some of the churches and YWCA and that. See, that explains in my head after the war I go to the temples in San Francisco and Salt Lake City and families are living in these places and I thought, 'That's weird that people live in churches. I wonder why.' But now I know. They were there until they were able to get back on their feet; fathers finding jobs and buying homes and all that. That's probably what happened." |
| Subject |
Ogden (Utah); Immigration; Japanese; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA |
| Date |
2014 |
| Date Digital |
2017 |
| Temporal Coverage |
1939-2014 |
| Item Size |
34p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 video disc: digital; 4 3/4 in. |
| Medium |
Oral History |
| Spatial Coverage |
Ogden (Utah) |
| Type |
Text; Image/MovingImage |
| Conversion Specifications |
Filmed using a Sony HDR-CX430V digital video camera. Sound was recorded with a Sony ECM-AW3(T) bluetooth microphone. Transcribed using WAVpedal 5 Copyrighted by The Programmers' Consortium Inc. Digitally reformatted using Adobe Acrobat Xl Pro. |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes, please credit University Archives, Stewart Library; Weber State University. |
| Source |
Hirai, Alice OH16_005; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives |
| Format |
video/mp4 |
| Setname |
wsu_webda_oh |
| ID |
104396 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6rtxqnx/104396 |
