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![[Fourth District Nisei Memorial Post 1961, Veterans of Foreign Wars, presenting banner to Maryknoll All Girls drum and bugle corps, Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1959]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8436/preview)
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[Fourth District Nisei Memorial Post 1961, Veterans of Foreign Wars, presenting banner to Maryknoll All Girls drum and bugle corps, Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1959]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1959
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.688
Description2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, September 3, 1959.;Fourth District Nisei Memorial Post 1961, Veterans of Foreign Wars present the organization's color banner to the Maryknoll all girls drum and bugle corps in the Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center garden during its week participation in the 60th annual convention in Los Angeles, California, August 30, 1959.
1. Commander Gerald Kobayashi, man in dark suit, light striped necktie and garrison cap covered with medals, holds flag pole, while Shirley Hoshi, girl in long sleeved blouse, white gloves, skirt, boots and hat with feathers, displays banner, "4th District Nisei Memorial Post no. 1961, Gardena, California, Instituted Aug. 15, 1953, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States." White statue of Madonna praying in rock grotto behind a low wooden fence, "M", in background left. White building at right.
2. Hoshi and Kobayashi hold banner flanked by two men in suits and garrison caps, and a girl in white long sleeved blouse and hat with dark feather, and skirt. Grotto and fence in corner of courtyard in background.
1. Commander Gerald Kobayashi, man in dark suit, light striped necktie and garrison cap covered with medals, holds flag pole, while Shirley Hoshi, girl in long sleeved blouse, white gloves, skirt, boots and hat with feathers, displays banner, "4th District Nisei Memorial Post no. 1961, Gardena, California, Instituted Aug. 15, 1953, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States." White statue of Madonna praying in rock grotto behind a low wooden fence, "M", in background left. White building at right.
2. Hoshi and Kobayashi hold banner flanked by two men in suits and garrison caps, and a girl in white long sleeved blouse and hat with dark feather, and skirt. Grotto and fence in corner of courtyard in background.
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