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[Taro Yashima book signing for children at a book fair at the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California, November 14, 1955]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.309
Description5 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 photographic prints : b&w ; 10 x 8 in. , 7 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, November 15, 1955, Japanese section, and November 19, 1955.;Artist Taro Yashima signs books and talks to school children at a book fair at the Los Angeles Public Library on Grand in Los Angeles, California, November 14, 1955. Includes Yashima in suit and dark rimmed eyeglasses shows a display of his works to children in different costumes, and being surrounded by children while signing book at a table.
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Toyo Miyatake Studio
1967
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