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[ YWCA Magnolia Residence present $620 check to Centennial Victory Caravan, Los Angeles, California, February 28, 1955]
[ YWCA Magnolia Residence present $620 check to Centennial Victory Caravan, Los Angeles, California, February 28, 1955]
[ YWCA Magnolia Residence present $620 check to Centennial Victory Caravan, Los Angeles, California, February 28, 1955]

[ YWCA Magnolia Residence present $620 check to Centennial Victory Caravan, Los Angeles, California, February 28, 1955]

Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.475
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Magnolia Residence presents a $620 check to the Centennial Victory Caravan for the YWCA Centennial fund in front of Magnolia Residence in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, February 28, 1955. Eleven Caucasian and Japanese American women in coats and fur wraps stand on the steps leading to entrance under a sign, "Y.W.C.A. Magnolia Residence." Four women hold pennants, " 100th Birthday" and "YWCA Centennial." They are identified (left to right): front row, Mrs. George Takeyama, Mrs. Frederic P. Schrader, Mrs. Kenzo Sugino, president of the Magnolia Residence Committee, Mrs. Samuel Nagata; second row, Mrs. Sadayo Kodani (2nd) and Mrs. William Rosenblatt, Los Angeles YWCA Centennial fund chairman (3rd).

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