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copy negative
copy negative
copy negative

copy negative

Date1934
DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of Mitsugu Hamanaka
Object number97.29.3
DescriptionStudio portrait of seven sumo wrestlers in mawashi, or sumo belts, and two men in suits with Championship banner and trophy from a tournament in Sacramento, California, July 4, 1934. Three men squat in first row holding signs in Japanese; six men stand in the back row with center man holding trophy and man on far right holding banner written in Japanese characters. Landscape backdrop framed by curtains in background.;1 negative : b&w , Copy negative reproduced from original print at JANM, February 21, 1997.

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