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[Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty presenting Nisei Veterans Week proclamation at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1970]
[Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty presenting Nisei Veterans Week proclamation at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1970]
[Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty presenting Nisei Veterans Week proclamation at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1970]

[Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty presenting Nisei Veterans Week proclamation at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1970]

Date1970
DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.1148
DescriptionLos Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty presents a certificate proclamation of Nisei Veterans Week and receives a lei from Linda Osaki, queen of Nisei Veterans Reunion, at Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1970. Includes Mayor Yorty, a Caucasian man in light colored suit at left, holding proclamation with young Japanese woman in patterned dress next to Japanese man in suit and eyeglasess; and same young woman giving Yorty a lei and two man, Min Sumida and Bob Hiyamizu, laugh at right (Published). Los Angeles City emblem on curtained wall flanked by American and California flags. Desk in foreground.;2 negatives : b&w ; 120 mm. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 26, 1970.

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