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Title: Mr. Moto
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Before World War II, Charles Iwamoto was a top sumo wrestler. After the war, he became "Mr. Moto," one of several Japanese-American "villains" on the post-World War II circuit. In the ring, Mr. Moto was accompanied by a valet named "Fuji." Photo dated: October 25, 1952.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048875
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 12518.
CARL0000052922
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17349
Subject: Iwamoto, Charles
Wrestlers
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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