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![[Dancer Yuriko Amemiya arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, November 11, 1970]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9009/preview)
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[Dancer Yuriko Amemiya arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, November 11, 1970]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1970
DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.1173
Description2 negatives : b&w ; 120 mm. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, November 12, 1970.;Dancer Yuriko Amemiya and her dance company arrive and are greeted by representatives of Pacific Southwest District Council of Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, California, November 4, 1970. Includes Amemiya in patterned tunic and hair in bun receiving a bouquet of flowers from a woman in leather jacket, Mrs. Toy Kanegai of West Los Angeles (WLA) JACL, flanked by George Takei and another man, and Amemiya surrounded by nine Japanese, Caucasian and African American men and women.
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