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[American Legion awards at Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]
[American Legion awards at Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]
[American Legion awards at Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]

[American Legion awards at Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]

Date1960
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.706
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 9, 1960.;American Legion awards and Winter 1960 Student Council of Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960.
1 and 2. Gary Kiwamu Yano, boy in suit , left, shakes hands with Caucasian man in suit and eyeglasses, center, as Frank Chinderle, commander of American Legion Post 541 Los Angeles Transit Line, another Caucasian man in suit, white necktie and American Legion overseas cap, right, hands him a sheet of paper
3. (Published) Yano, boy in suit , left, receives American Legion award and shakes hands with Chinderle as Frances Nekota, girl's runner up receives certificate from principal Norma Gibson, tall Caucasian woman in pearls and dress at left; Mrs. Kiyoshi Yano, Gary's mother stands at far right.

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