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[American Legion awards at Kern Avenue Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 10, 1955]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.521
Description3 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 11, 1955.;Group of A-9 graduating Kern Avenue Junior High School students accompanied by parents receive awards at an awards program presented by Union Pacific American Legion Post 643 at the school in Los Angeles, California, June 10, 1955. Caucasian man in garrison cap and woman present awards to studentson a small stage between bleachers outdoors. Joy Yoneko Tanaka, American Legion certificate and pin winner, and William Asato, outstanding A-9 athlete, receive awards from Esco E. Emery, chairman of awards of the Union Pacific Post 643 next to Mrs. Frances Foster, principal, and Mrs. Marian Tanaka, Tanaka's mother.
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Toyo Miyatake Studio
1958
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