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[George Y. Hirano receiving Franklin Life Insurance "Man of the Year" award, California, February 6, 1962]
[George Y. Hirano receiving Franklin Life Insurance "Man of the Year" award, California, February 6, 1962]
[George Y. Hirano receiving Franklin Life Insurance "Man of the Year" award, California, February 6, 1962]

[George Y. Hirano receiving Franklin Life Insurance "Man of the Year" award, California, February 6, 1962]

Maker (1895 - 1979)
Date1962
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.755
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, February 10, 1962.;George Y. Hirano of Wada and Asato Agency receives the Franklin Life Insurance "Man of the Year" award from George A. Landis, Western executive director, California, February 6, 1962. Smiling balding Caucasian man in suit and eyeglasses presents a shield shaped metal on wood plaque to Japanese American man in eyeglasses and pinstriped suit. Men are visible from hip up.

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