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[Sewing class graduation at Miyako Hotel, Los Angeles, California, November 3, 1962]
[Sewing class graduation at Miyako Hotel, Los Angeles, California, November 3, 1962]
[Sewing class graduation at Miyako Hotel, Los Angeles, California, November 3, 1962]

[Sewing class graduation at Miyako Hotel, Los Angeles, California, November 3, 1962]

Date1962
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.779
Description2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Sewing class graduation in the Japanese Chamber of Commerce at the Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, November 3, 1962. Includes portrait of ten women and a girl in kimono and dresses in two rows holding scrolls; seated woman in center holds a small wrapped gift. Woman in light colored kimono talks to group of women, pointing to long pillow laying next to stack of certificates on cloth covered table.

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