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Title
Watanabe, George
Creator
Ninomiya Studio: photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
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
Portrait of family. Negative scan.
In 1922, Kinso Ninomiya opened the Ninomiya Studio in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Due to Executive Order 9066 in 1942, the studio was forced to close but was reopened by Kinso and his son, Elwin Ichiro, in 1949. The studio operated in Little Tokyo until its final closing in 1986. The Ninomiya Studio Collection captures slices of Japanese American life in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1980s. The collection contains formal portraiture and candid photography in black and white and color as well as commercial photography for local businesses and reproductions of older photographs. The negatives come in a variety of sizes, including 8 x 10 inch negatives and panoramic negatives on Cirkut film. Each negative scanned has been selected out of multiple negatives and prints from a set. The title of the negative scan reflects the purchaser’s name.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 5 x 7 inches; 6 negatives (5 x 7 inches), 6 negatives (3. 5 x 5 inches), and 12 prints
image/jpeg
Identifier
nino_50-135_01
csudh_nino_00017
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/14113
Language
English
Subject
Portrait photography
Japanese American families
Place
Los Angeles, 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/c84t6q6p/
Ninomiya Studio Collection

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