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![[Mother and daughter teachers, Helen and Jane Masamura, teaching home economics at Wilson High School and Stevenson High School, Los Angeles, California, December 9, 1959]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8447/preview)
![[Mother and daughter teachers, Helen and Jane Masamura, teaching home economics at Wilson High School and Stevenson High School, Los Angeles, California, December 9, 1959]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8447/full)
[Mother and daughter teachers, Helen and Jane Masamura, teaching home economics at Wilson High School and Stevenson High School, Los Angeles, California, December 9, 1959]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1959
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.697
Description4 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo supplement, December 19, 1959.;Mother and daughter home economic teachers, Mrs. Helen Masamura and Miss Jane Masamura, teach sewing to Wilson High School girls and cooking to Stevenson Junior High School girls, respectively, in Los Angeles, California, December 9, 1959. A Caucasian man, principal Kenyon Smith, observes Jane dressed in apron and hair pulled back in a bun showing girls a recipe and how to peel a potatoe. Helen in short curly hair shows girls how to hand sew and use a sewing machine.
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