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Title
Golden Gate International Exposition
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
Photographs of the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939-1940 and a Japanese passenger cargo ship. A page from the Masumoto family album.
The Masumoto and Saito Family Photos documents four generations of the Japanese American family in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Photographs depict the family’s businesses, trips, weddings, funeral, and others. Included are Jack Masumoto’s trading company in San Francisco, Toraichi Okamoto’s produce store in Glendale, Southern California Sewing School in Little Tokyo, Japanese passenger ships, USS General M.M. Patrick which sailed war brides to the U.S., family outings such as trip to Golden Gate International Exposition and picnics, family gatherings for the wedding of Jack Toshio Robert and Teruko Okamoto in Japan, Traichi’s Western-style house in Japan, the Manzanar incarceration camp during the war, the post-war activities of the Koyasan Boy Scouts of America, and Tokyo during the Allied Occupation of Japan.
Type
image
Format
Albums; Photographs
black and white
image/jpeg
Identifier
mas_022
csudh_mas_0072
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/55833
Subject
Community activities--Travel
Identity and values--Kibei
Identity and values--Nisei
Identity and values--Sansei
Geographic communities--California--San Francisco
Place
San Francisco, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82f7w01/
Masumoto and Saito Family Photos

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