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[Vice-governor of Tokyo presents doll at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, April 17, 1957]
[Vice-governor of Tokyo presents doll at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, April 17, 1957]
[Vice-governor of Tokyo presents doll at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, April 17, 1957]

[Vice-governor of Tokyo presents doll at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, April 17, 1957]

Date1957
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.430
Description1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, April 17 and 18, 1957, Japanese section.;Vice-governor, Fuku Chiji, of Tokyo, Japan presents a dancer doll to a Caucasian man Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles, California, April 17, 1957. Older Japanese gentleman in suit and eyeglasses stands at right holding base of case as smiling Caucasian man in suit holds base at left. Doll wears a kimono and hat, and holds six hats. Desk in foreground. Photograph hangs on wall directly behind them.

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