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![[Giant Salamander at the Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles, California, November 26, 1968]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8859/preview)
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[Giant Salamander at the Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles, California, November 26, 1968]
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1968
DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.1038
DescriptionSix Caucasian and Japanese men examine a axolotl, a giant salamander, from Sister City Nagoya, Japan, outside at the Los Angeles Zoo in Los Angeles, California, November 26, 1968. Caucasian man in suit and eyeglasses crouches over tarp holding a metamorphosized axolotl, a form of salamander. They are identified (left to right): Bill Turner, assistant curator of reptiles, John Sheffield, Sister City Committee Chairman, Toshiaki Yokoyama of Japanese Consul General office, and George Saiki of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's office. Two zoo keepers crouch at right.;2 negatives : b&w ; 120 mm. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, November 26, 1968.
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