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[Ibaraki Prefecture Governor receiving honorary law degree at Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California, September 2, 1966]
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1966
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.929
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, September 3, 1966;Ibaraki Prefecture Governor Jiro Iwagami of Japan receives an honorary doctorate law degree at the Friendship Hall in Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California, September 2, 1966.
1P and 3N: Pepperdine President M. Norvel Young presents Governor Iwagami with degree as Consul General of Japan Toshiro Shimanouchi looks on. Tall, balding Caucasian man stands at right in suit next to Japanese man in dark robes with velvet trim and mortarboard. Japanese man in suit and eyeglasses stands at left.
2N: Governor Iwagami stands in academic robes and mortarboard, far right, next to Consul General Shimanouchi and wife. Blond Caucasian woman in background, left.
1P and 3N: Pepperdine President M. Norvel Young presents Governor Iwagami with degree as Consul General of Japan Toshiro Shimanouchi looks on. Tall, balding Caucasian man stands at right in suit next to Japanese man in dark robes with velvet trim and mortarboard. Japanese man in suit and eyeglasses stands at left.
2N: Governor Iwagami stands in academic robes and mortarboard, far right, next to Consul General Shimanouchi and wife. Blond Caucasian woman in background, left.