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[Eiji Sakabe, grandprize winner of American Cancer Society poster contest, California, March 21, 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 number96.267.482
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, March 22, 1955 and March 26, 1955, Japanese section.;Eiji Sakabe of Dorsey High School stands next to his art teacher, Walter Smith, holding his American Cancer Society poster which won the statewide competition's grandprize, in front of Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, California, March 21, 1955. Smiling boy stands at right next to a Caucasian man in suit. They hold a poster that has text, "Cancer can be cured, give to the American Cancer Society," over an illustration of an arm and syringe. Entrance to building in background; "3537" partially obscured by tree at top right.