The State Library of Oregon has awarded the Oregon Historical Society a grant to process and make publicly accessible the Yasui Brothers records, a large manuscript collection preserved in OHS’s research library.  Dating primarily from 1905 to 1942, the collection consists of over 180 linear feet of business and personal materials, over half of which is written in a pre-World War II Japanese language script that is difficult to translate.  Homer Yasui donated the records to OHS in 1991, but they have never been fully processed.  The records document the experiences and contributions of businessman and noted community leader Masuo Yasui, Homer Yasui’s father, and his family of first- and second-generation Japanese immigrants who lived in Hood River during the first four decades of the twentieth century.  Grant funds will support extensible processing of this collection, which includes the hiring of a professional archivist for the duration of the project and the engagement of contract translators to appropriately arrange and describe the bulk of the several thousand records in this collection, perform selective digitization and translation of the text, and rehouse documents for preservation.