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Title
[Taenaka family]
Date Created and/or Issued
[1942]
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Description
A photograph of Toshikuni Taenaka, a Japanese American Nisei/Kibei soldier, and his family. Includes Toshikuni Taenaka in US Army service uniform, his parents, Tamesaburo and Kamie Taenaka, his sisters, Haruko, Chiyoko, and Saiko, and his nephews and niece. The photograph is probably taken in Brighton, Colorado, where Toshikuni Taenaka's family resides.
Japanese in America, circa early 1900s-1960s, boxes 7-12: The collection contains photographs and albums of the Japanese in the United States, mainly Washington, California, Colorado, and Utah. The photographs include family portraits and snapshots capturing their community activities and local events, such as picnic, wedding, funeral, local associations’ activities, etc, mostly taken in the early 1900s. Also includes sets of photographs and albums compiled by the Taenaka family, a Japanese family settled in Los Angeles, California. The Taenaka family photographs depict their lives as Japanese immigrants, Nisei children, and Kibei soldier participating in the war as well as their Japanese family relationship in pre-war and post-war Japan.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white
image/jpeg
Identifier
jia_08_01_034
ucsb_jia_0092
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/8995
Subject
World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service
Identity and values--Kibei
Identity and values--Nisei
Geographic communities--Colorado
Identity and values--Family
Identity and values--Children
Identity and values--Sansei
Identity and values--Issei
Identity and values--Parents
Place
Brighton, Colorado
Source
Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Japanese in America, circa early 1900s-1960s

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