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[Dr. and Mrs. E. Allen Petersen promoting book, Hummel Hummel, Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1952]
[Dr. and Mrs. E. Allen Petersen promoting book, Hummel Hummel, Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1952]
[Dr. and Mrs. E. Allen Petersen promoting book, Hummel Hummel, Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1952]

[Dr. and Mrs. E. Allen Petersen promoting book, Hummel Hummel, Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1952]

Date1952
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.169
Description2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in.;A couple, Dr. and Mrs. E. Allen Peterson, sit at a table promoting their book, Hummel Hummel, about their transpacific adventure sailing on a Chinese junk, November 29, 1952. Japanese American woman, Tani Yoshihara Petersen, sits at left wearing a belted dress and a very large pendant next to a bald Caucasian man, Petersen, who has a mustache, suit and floral necktie at right.

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