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Title
Portrait of ROTC Second Lieutenant Walter Tsukamoto
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1927-05-11
Publication Information
California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Contributing Institution
California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection
Japanese American Archival Collection
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts or photographs must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Description
Portrait of Walter Tsukamoto as a ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) graduate. In 1931, Walter Tsukamoto organized the Sacramento Chapter, JACL (Japanese American Citizens League) and served as its president until 1936. He was elected JACL national president in 1938. He is the first[?] Nisei to receive a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley and the first Nisei to be accepted in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Department. He is one of the first Nisei to earn promotions to be Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel in the U.S. Army.
Type
image
Format
5 x 7 in.
Photographic print.
b&w
4.98 x 6.93 in.
Epson Expression 1600
Photoshop 6.0
None
600 dpi
Grayscale
8 Bit
2988 x 4158 pixels
12137 kb.
Tiff
Identifier
JC17:529
ark:/13030/kt1j49p8h1
392.jpg
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/jaac/id/391
Language
English
Subject
Tsukamoto, Walter
Sacramento Japanese American Citizens League
United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
Japanese American Citizens' League
United States--Armed Forces--Japanese Americans
Relation
From the Japanese American Archival Collection. MSS-94/01. California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives

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