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Title
Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka with Kimiko Maeda Ishibashi, wearing their kimonos
Date Created and/or Issued
1930-1940
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
Pre-war photograph of Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka (right) sitting on a bridge with her cousin, Kimiko Maeda Ishibashi (left), wearing their kimonos.
The collection mainly documents the life of Hatsuko Mary Yoshioka Higuchi's Nisei and Kibei mother, Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka, from childhood to adulthood by way of photographs: Kiyoko was born in Santa Monica, California but later moved to Japan to live with her aunt after both of her parents passed away. She returned to the U. S. in the late 1930s, resided on Terminal Island, California before the war, and was incarcerated in the Poston camp in Arizona during the war. After the war ended, the Yoshioka family returned to California and reestablished their lives in Lawndale and Torrance. The collection also includes a short essay written by Hatsuko while she was a student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), redress papers, and a handout from a sewing class at the Poston incarceration camp in Arizona. The collection ranges from about 1917 until 1990.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white
image/jpeg
Identifier
mhi_01_057
csudh_mhi_0057
mhi_01_057.tiff
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/40582
Language
English
Subject
Community activities--Festivals, celebrations, and holidays
Identity and values--Kibei
Identity and values--Nisei
Geographic communities--California
Place
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/c8fx7hms/
Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka Photographs

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