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![[Gardena Chamber of Commerce citizenship banquet at Western Club cafe, Gardena, California, June 22, 1956]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8070/preview)
![[Gardena Chamber of Commerce citizenship banquet at Western Club cafe, Gardena, California, June 22, 1956]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8070/full)
[Gardena Chamber of Commerce citizenship banquet at Western Club cafe, Gardena, California, June 22, 1956]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1956
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.355
Description2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 25, 1956.;Gardena Chamber of Commerce honored natrualized citizens, such as Frank Toshinori Yamauchi, at a citizenship banquet held at Western Club cafe in Gardena, California, June 22, 1956. Includes Yamauchi, an older Japanese gentleman in suit and eyeglasses shaking hands with Mayor Thomas K. Ware, a Caucasian man in a suit and eyeglasses seated at table next to his wife. Attorney Dudley Gray, left, emceed the event; Albert Greenberg, Gardena Chamber of Commerce president, offered his congratulations. Veteran Seiji Imamura wears a garrison cap at right. Mirrored wall in background.
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