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[Roy Kiyoshi Tanabe receiving Bank of America Achievement Award in Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, May 10, 1956]
[Roy Kiyoshi Tanabe receiving Bank of America Achievement Award in Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, May 10, 1956]
[Roy Kiyoshi Tanabe receiving Bank of America Achievement Award in Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, May 10, 1956]

[Roy Kiyoshi Tanabe receiving Bank of America Achievement Award in Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, May 10, 1956]

Maker (1895 - 1979)
Date1956
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.344
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, May 11, 1956.;Three young Caucasian women and a young man, Roy Kiyoshi Tanabe, reach for thousand dollar checks held by an older Caucasian man standing in the center for the Bank of America Achievement Awards held in the Golden State room at the Statler Hotel in Los Angeles, California, May 10, 1956. The people are identified (L to R): Antoinette D. Scott of Canoga Park, science and mathematics; Linda Ann Hoover of Franklin, vocational arts; Jesse W. Tapp, chairman of the board of Bank of America, Gail Greiner of Los Angeles High, liberal arts; and Tanabe, fine arts.

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