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[Atsuko Nambu, Japanese track and field star, Los Angeles, California, August 19, 1955]
[Atsuko Nambu, Japanese track and field star, Los Angeles, California, August 19, 1955]
[Atsuko Nambu, Japanese track and field star, Los Angeles, California, August 19, 1955]

[Atsuko Nambu, Japanese track and field star, Los Angeles, California, August 19, 1955]

Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.541
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, August 20, 1955.;Atsuko Nambu, 20 year old track and field star from Japan, sits in a chair at what appears to be a photo studio, possibly Toyo Miyatake Studio, Los Angeles, California, August 19, 1955. Smiling young woman in shift dress sits with hands clasped in her lap on a cushioned chair below partially visible portraits of people. Her hair is short with curly forelock brushed to proper right. She looks to left of viewer. Purse on magazine at right.

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