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[Burt Yamasaki, Boys State delegate, head and shoulder portrait, California, May 22, 1953]
[Burt Yamasaki, Boys State delegate, head and shoulder portrait, California, May 22, 1953]
[Burt Yamasaki, Boys State delegate, head and shoulder portrait, California, May 22, 1953]

[Burt Yamasaki, Boys State delegate, head and shoulder portrait, California, May 22, 1953]

Date1953
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.182
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Studio half-portrait of Burt Keiji Yamasaki, a John Marshall High School student delegate selected by Commodore Perry Post 525 to attend the annual American Legion Boys State convention in Sacramento, California, 1953. Dressed in suit with white shirt, abstract design necktie and white kerchief in breast pocket.

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