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[Salonpas girls baseball team from Japan in front of Rafu Shimpo, Los Angeles, California, October 27, 1967]
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1967
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.971
DescriptionPortrait of Salonpas girls baseball team from Japan on sidewalk in front of the Rafu Shimpo building in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, October 27, 1967. Twenty girls in baseball uniforms with "Salonpas" across the chest stand pose in three rows. Five men in suits stand with them; four of them wear hats and Japan logo on their suits. One baseball player in back row holds a sign, "Japan girls base ball, Brazil - Peru - Hawaii - Ecuador - Panama, Salonpas Team." Street extends into distance at right; Rafu Shimpo building at left. The Team managers and company officers accompanying the team are identified: Masao Nakano, manager; Masayoshi Nakatomi, president; and Kiyoshi Sakai, manager of general affairs. "Rafu Shimpo. L.A. Japanese Daily News" on wall behind them.;1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, October 28, 1967.
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