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[Mrs. Akiko Nagashima, president-elect of Virginia Road Elementary School PTA, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1955]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.281
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 10, 1955.;Formal installation into office of Mrs. Akiko Nagashima as president-elect of Virginia Road Elementary School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) for 1955-1956 in Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1955. Nagashima receives a gavel from past president Mrs. Harry Safer; installation officer Mrs. Harold E. Dale stands between them; principal Mrs. Bessie B. Burke stands at far left; historian-elect Mrs. Hughes Tatara stands at far right. All women wear corsages and all women except Burke wear hats.