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[Eijiro Suematsu and silk painting of trout for President Eisenhower, California, July 18, 1956]
[Eijiro Suematsu and silk painting of trout for President Eisenhower, California, July 18, 1956]
[Eijiro Suematsu and silk painting of trout for President Eisenhower, California, July 18, 1956]

[Eijiro Suematsu and silk painting of trout for President Eisenhower, California, July 18, 1956]

Maker (1895 - 1979)
Date1956
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.361
Description1 negative : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , Ppublished in Rafu Shimpo, July 18, 1956.;Portrait of Eijiro Suematsu holding a framed silk painting of trout to be sent to United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a token of appreciation by Suematsu's wife, assisted by Rollins MacFadyen and Soichi Fukui, California, July 19, 1956. Older man stands in center behind a large watercolor painting of seven swimming aya or trout as a tall Caucasian man, left, and Japanese man, right, hold up painting.

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