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Description
A photograph of Toshiko Udeda and Yetsuko and Toshiko Sakai wearing Japanese parasols at a beach in Santa Cruz, California. The caption reads: Santa Cruz Calif 1931, Yetsuko 8, Tsohiko 12, and Toshi Ueda 12. Stamped with "Made by Empster's Aug 16 1932 film service your guarantee of quality" on the backside. The handwritten notes on the backside read: Toshiko Uyeda, Toshiko, Yetsuko 8 year old, Santa Cruz Calif., Santa Cruz beach." This photograph is found on page 4 of "Yetsuko Kiyomi photo album" (csudh_yet_0001). Contains a family photo album compiled by Yetsuko Kiyomi, who is a Kibei Nisei born to Japanese immigrant parents, Misaburo and Sayo Sakai, and raised in the Japanese farming community in the town of Holland, Clarksburg, Yolo County, California. She returned to Kumamoto, Japan where she was educated and resided from pre-war through post-war, and sailed back to the U.S. and married to Genjiro Kiyomi in 1957. The included photographs depict her life in two countries, the U.S. and Japan. Additional materials in the collection include: a group photograph of her 6th grade Mifune Elementary School, her mother's side family trees, and her husband's biographical information.
Type
image
Format
Photographs; Albums black and white; handwritten image/jpeg
Community activities--Recreational activities--Picnics Geographic communities--California Identity and values--Children Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Kibei
Place
Santa Cruz, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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