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Description
A group photograph of members of Soko Bijutsu Zakkasho Domei 桑港美術雑貨商同盟, an association for Japanese art materials trade in San Francisco. Jack Toshio Robert Masumoto (3rd row, 6th from right) is captured. 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.
Industry and employment--Importing Industry and employment--Retail Identity and values--Kibei Identity and values--Nisei Geographic communities--California--San Francisco
Place
San Francisco, California
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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