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photograph
Maker
Palomar Studios
Maker
Shindo, T.K.
Maker
Ninomiya Studio
Date1930-1959
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift in Memory of Toshiyuki and Chiharu Okamura
Object number99.80.12
DescriptionTotal of 4 images from Okamura family.
1 b&w image of 10 men dress in 3 piece suits and tie, and 1 female, Grace Chiaki Arita, standing in doorway of warehouse with cartons of goods stacked on delivery carts. Building is Naka Merchants Union Inc., 519 E. 11th St. Los Angeles. Large sign on brick building with Japanese writing below; photograph taken by Ninomiya Studio, Nov. 12, 1936.
1 b&w image of poetry club; group of Japanese men dressed in suits and ties, and women in coats and some with hats. Setting is Japanese garden with bridge, Chiharu Okamura back row 2nd from L; taken by Ninomiya Studio, Japanese writing at BL.
1 sepia image of classroom at St. Ignatius, grade 3, Catherine Okamura, age 8, 1st row L, only Asian in class. Girls are wearing blouses and jumper uniforms, sitting in desk and chair with hands folded on desk. Taken by the Palomar Studios, Chicago, Ill., ca. 1951.
1 b&w image of welcome party of women, Nov. 27, 1959. Japanese writing on banner hung on R side, Masako Watanabe, 7th from L, wife of Paul Okamura. Taken by T.K. Shindo photographer.
1 b&w image of 10 men dress in 3 piece suits and tie, and 1 female, Grace Chiaki Arita, standing in doorway of warehouse with cartons of goods stacked on delivery carts. Building is Naka Merchants Union Inc., 519 E. 11th St. Los Angeles. Large sign on brick building with Japanese writing below; photograph taken by Ninomiya Studio, Nov. 12, 1936.
1 b&w image of poetry club; group of Japanese men dressed in suits and ties, and women in coats and some with hats. Setting is Japanese garden with bridge, Chiharu Okamura back row 2nd from L; taken by Ninomiya Studio, Japanese writing at BL.
1 sepia image of classroom at St. Ignatius, grade 3, Catherine Okamura, age 8, 1st row L, only Asian in class. Girls are wearing blouses and jumper uniforms, sitting in desk and chair with hands folded on desk. Taken by the Palomar Studios, Chicago, Ill., ca. 1951.
1 b&w image of welcome party of women, Nov. 27, 1959. Japanese writing on banner hung on R side, Masako Watanabe, 7th from L, wife of Paul Okamura. Taken by T.K. Shindo photographer.
1929-1939
1965-1975
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Tatsuno, David
1936-1937
1905-1959