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[Downtown JACL Nisei Week queen candidate, June Tsukida, Los Angeles, California, June 1959]
[Downtown JACL Nisei Week queen candidate, June Tsukida, Los Angeles, California, June 1959]
[Downtown JACL Nisei Week queen candidate, June Tsukida, Los Angeles, California, June 1959]

[Downtown JACL Nisei Week queen candidate, June Tsukida, Los Angeles, California, June 1959]

Maker (1895 - 1979)
Date1959
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.692
Description3 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 3 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, July 2, 1959.;Downtown Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) Nisei Week queen candidate, June Tsukida, Los Angeles, California, June 1959. Includes portrait of Tsukida wearing a tiara.
2 and 5. Previous Downtown queen candidate, Janet Okamoto, in evening gown places a tiara on the head of June Tsukida in white dress as three men look on, Festival queen committee co-chair Nori Oku, Chapter president Gongoro Nakamura and Matao Uwate, respectively.

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