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[Sazo Idemitsu, president of Idemitsu Kosan, California, December 1, 1955]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.579
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, January 1, 1956, Japanese section.;Portrait of Sazo Idemitsu, president of Idemitsu Kosan, a Japanese petroleum company, California, December 1, 1955. A smiling older, white-haired, balding man in a suit sits in a chair leaning forward on desk and holding an envelope, facing right. He looks through round-rimmed eyeglasses to the right of viewer. Desk is angled and has a folded Rafu Shimpo newspaper on corner, bottom right, as well as a black rotary phone and file trays at other side of desk with pen set in between. Closed doors in background, left.
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