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[Miss Japan in the Miss Universe parade, Long Beach, California, July 1956]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Miyatake, Archie
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1956
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.399
Description4 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Miss Japan, Yoshie Baba, stands in a swimsuit holding a paper umbrella upon a small float pushed by a sailor in the Miss Universe parade held in Long Beach, California, July 1956. Includes Baba in kimono with a very large corsage on her proper L shoulder sitting casually on a couch, and dressed in a modern bamboo print kimono and polka dot obi, standing in front of the Rafu Shimpo office in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.
Toyo Miyatake Studio
1958
Fukuzaki, Ben
ca. 1943-1955
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Yoritsune, Henry
1930-1956
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