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[Girl's Week in Government at Los Angeles Mayor's office, Los Angeles, California, March 16, 1955]
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.483
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, March 17, 1955.;Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson presents a formal proclamation designating March 20-26, "Girl's Week", to Toshie Matsuhara, Wanda L. Gertsch and Mrs. Nell Clark at the Mayor's office in Los Angeles, California, March 16, 1955. Caucasian man in suit and eyeglasses speaks at left as he hands document to young Japanese American woman flanked by two Caucasian women who wear hats. They are identified (left to right): Poulson; Gertsch, first vice president of the Los Angeles District of the Business and Professional Women's Club; Matsuhara, student body vice president at Roosevelt High School; Clark, Girl's Week chariman for the Siena Mar District.
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