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[Sixth Avenue PTA officer installation, Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1955]
[Sixth Avenue PTA officer installation, Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1955]
[Sixth Avenue PTA officer installation, Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1955]

[Sixth Avenue PTA officer installation, Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1955]

Maker (1895 - 1979)
Date1955
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.260
Description3 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 4 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, May 13, 1955.;Sixth Avenue Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) officer installation at school auditorium, Los Angeles, California, May 11, 1955. Women wear suits, small hats and corsages. Includes an informal portrait of officers standing on steps: Mrs. Masaru Narahara, first vice-president; Mrs. James Yamamoto, second vice-president; Mrs. George Watanabe, parliamentarian; Mrs. George Hayashi, auditor; an African American woman handing a gavel to a Japanese American woman; and thirteen women standing in a row at front of auditorium.

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