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![[American Legion Award at Mt. Vernon Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, January 30, 1957]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8141/preview)
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[American Legion Award at Mt. Vernon Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, January 30, 1957]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Miyatake, Archie
Date1957
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.411
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Two Japanese American students shake hands with a Caucasian man as they receive the American Legion Award at Mt. Vernon Junior High School in Los Angeles, California, January 30, 1957. Dressed in a tweed suit and eyeglasses, the man crosses his arms as he shakes the boy in aloha shirt on left and girl in white sweater and cat eyeglasses on right. Bust of George Washington in background.
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