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[Mr. Okazaki at formal party at Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, October 28, 1954]
[Mr. Okazaki at formal party at Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, October 28, 1954]
[Mr. Okazaki at formal party at Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, October 28, 1954]

[Mr. Okazaki at formal party at Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, October 28, 1954]

Date1954
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.222
Description19 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Formal party attended by Mr. Okazaki and Japanese and Caucasian men and women dressed in tuxedos, kimonos and gowns at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, October 28, 1954. Okazaki appears to be an older balding man with black round-rimmed eyeglasses. Includes koto performance, Okazaki giving a speech and Okazaki shaking hands with another man at the bottom of steps after deplaning Pan American airplane.

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