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Title
[Taenaka family with the Japanese American community in Los Angeles, California]
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 page from the Taenaka family photo album. Pasted on the page are four photographs including the Taenaka family and the Japanese American community in Los Angeles, California. Two of the photographs are taken on the deck of the ship. Another photograph includes a baseball player of the local Japanese American baseball team, Rafu Nippon. The photographs are probably taken in approximately 1930 in Los Angeles, California.
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
Albums; Photographs
black and white
image/jpeg
Identifier
jia_09_01_061
ucsb_jia_0266
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/9356
Language
Japanese
Subject
Identity and values--Issei
Identity and values--Nisei
Identity and values--Family
Identity and values--Japanese American identity
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Community activities--Sports--Baseball
Community activities--Travel
Place
Los Angeles, California
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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