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![[Japanese American Optimist Club of Los Angeles award presentation at Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1956]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8065/preview)
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[Japanese American Optimist Club of Los Angeles award presentation at Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1956]
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1956
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.350
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 9, 1956.;Paul Bannai and Yosh Inadori of the Japanese American Optimist Club of Los Angeles present the first annual senior achievement award to an outstanding student, Susan Toyoshima, at a special assembly at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1956. A young woman in a white blouse and eyeglasses smiles as she receives an envelope of $100 savings bond from a man in a light colored suit and bow tie at right; she holds a trophy in her proper left hand. Man in eyeglasses stands in center holding a plaque for the annual essay contest.
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