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[Staff and patients of Gardena Convalescent Home, Gardena, California, July 10, 1970]
[Staff and patients of Gardena Convalescent Home, Gardena, California, July 10, 1970]
[Staff and patients of Gardena Convalescent Home, Gardena, California, July 10, 1970]

[Staff and patients of Gardena Convalescent Home, Gardena, California, July 10, 1970]

Date1970
DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.1152
Description2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 5 negatives : b&w ; 120 mm. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, July 31, 1970.;Staff and patients of Gardena Convalescent Home in Gardena, California, July 10, 1970. Includes portrait of staff of nine Japanese American, African American and Caucasian women and two Caucasian men standing on ramp outside building with sign, "Gardena Convalescent Home, 14819, Park in Rear" ; Japanese nurse standing behind three elderly male patients covered with blankets in wheelchairs; and seven Caucasian and Japanese patients, Florence Maisch, Fusa Usui, Mrs. Marshall, Ishoko Mori, Dorothy Sudd, Gertude Psholka, Harry Haywood, arranged around a cake with lit candles atop a round table in front of large curtained windows (Published).

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