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[American Legion award presentation at Griffith Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, January 21, 1961]
[American Legion award presentation at Griffith Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, January 21, 1961]
[American Legion award presentation at Griffith Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, January 21, 1961]

[American Legion award presentation at Griffith Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, January 21, 1961]

Date1961
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.720
Description2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, January 23, 1961.;American Legion award presenation to students at Griffith Junior High School in Los Angeles, California, January 21, 1961. William Masataka Fujihara, a 17 year old sansei, is awarded the American Legion award by Ralph Delong, past commander of Union Pacific American Legion, as Mrs. Stanley Fujihara looks on at right. Also includes a group portrait of ten student awardees standing with certificates with Delong; girls wear corsages.

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