Image / Nisei festival queens pose with flowers in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1953

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Title: Nisei festival queens pose with flowers in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1953
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: "Nisei" are the second-generation Japanese Americans who founded the annual festival in 1934 to attract business to the Little Tokyo area and promote goodwill in Los Angeles.
Photographed are Jeanne Inouyi, Ruth Fujimoto, Sandy Sugita, Marge Murumota, and Jeanne Yokota.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb229003s3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Culture
Beauty contestants--California--Los Angeles
Ethnic festivals
Japanese American women
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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