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![[Installation ceremony of Virginia Road Elementary School PTA president, Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1956]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8068/preview)
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[Installation ceremony of Virginia Road Elementary School PTA president, Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1956]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1956
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.353
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 16.1956.;Passing of the gavel from past president Mrs. Tom Nagashima to incoming president Mrs. John Gerlach at the installation ceremony of the Parents Teacher Association (PTA) president at Virginia Road Elementary School auditorium in Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1956. Caucasian woman in dark belted dress holds handle of gavel and smiles at Japanese American woman in dark suit holding head of gavel. They are flanked by two women, Mrs. Hughes Tatara, first vice president, and Mrs. Ben Yano, historian. Past president, Mrs. Ferrol Fortier, stands in center.
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