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[Two thousand dollar donation to Japanese American Citizens' League, California, September 6, 1956]
[Two thousand dollar donation to Japanese American Citizens' League, California, September 6, 1956]
[Two thousand dollar donation to Japanese American Citizens' League, California, September 6, 1956]

[Two thousand dollar donation to Japanese American Citizens' League, California, September 6, 1956]

Maker (1895 - 1979)
Date1956
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.364
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, September 8, 1956.;Tsukasa Kiyono presents a two thousand dollar check donation to Mike Masaoka of the Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL), Los Angeles, California, September 6, 1956. Kiyono, a retired Camellia grower, is an older man in light colored suit standing at left, who gazes right. Masaoka, Washington legislative representative for the JACL, stands at right wearing a tweed jacket and a bow tie and gazes left. Both men wear eyeglasses. World map on wall in the background; Asian continent in center of map.

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