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[Southern California Hiroshima Kenjinkai kankodan at airport, Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1955]
[Southern California Hiroshima Kenjinkai kankodan at airport, Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1955]
[Southern California Hiroshima Kenjinkai kankodan at airport, Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1955]

[Southern California Hiroshima Kenjinkai kankodan at airport, Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1955]

Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.546
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Group portrait of Southern California Hiroshima Kenjinkai kankodan, or tour group, at the airport on their departure for a tour to Hiroshima, Japan on United Airlines, Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1955. Large group of men, women and children stand on tarmac and back ramp stairs in front of United Airlines airplane holding a banner in Japanese, "Southern California Hiroshima Kenjinkai family country tour group, Taiyodo Ryokoannaisha". Back half of plane visible; tail of plane at right.

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