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[Art exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1951]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1951
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.91
Description3 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Art exhibition of Japanese wood prints at the Central Library, a Los Angeles Public Library in downtown Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1951.
1N: Small group of Caucasian men and women and one Japanese woman dressed in a kimono look at exhibition inside the library. Caucasian man is probably Victor Merlo, the American representative of the Society for International Cultural Relations of Japan.
2N: Interior view of the recognizable four-part mural depicting stages of the history of California in Central Library.
3N: Caucasian man and woman look at art in case while young Caucasian woman and Japanese woman in kimono look at ikebana.
1N: Small group of Caucasian men and women and one Japanese woman dressed in a kimono look at exhibition inside the library. Caucasian man is probably Victor Merlo, the American representative of the Society for International Cultural Relations of Japan.
2N: Interior view of the recognizable four-part mural depicting stages of the history of California in Central Library.
3N: Caucasian man and woman look at art in case while young Caucasian woman and Japanese woman in kimono look at ikebana.
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