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Description
Photographs taken in Japan when Jack Toshio Robert Masumoto and Teruko Okamoto married. 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.
Community activities--Weddings Japan--Pre-World War II Identity and values--Kibei Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Sansei Identity and values--Issei
Place
Yashiro Island, Japan
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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