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![[Celebration for Fred Wada at New Ginza, Los Angeles, California, February 10, 1965]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8646/preview)
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[Celebration for Fred Wada at New Ginza, Los Angeles, California, February 10, 1965]
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1965
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.859
Description2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 3 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Celebration for Fred Wada at New Ginza restaurant in Los Angeles, California, February 10, 1965. White-haired Wada wears eyeglasses and a dark suit with a medal with a cross, and a carnation boutonniere. Includes a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wada standing together in front of a four-tiered cake that reads "Congratulations Fred Wada", Wada speaking into a microphone on a stage next to cake, Wada and wife accepting a vase on a stand with Japanese writing from an older couple, and a portrait of another couple standing next to a table with a scroll, clock and a large trophy, "Mr. Shasui Takayanagi" while the man holds a wrapped item.
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