Yasui Family Collection ddr-densho-259

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Nisei children drinking milk (ddr-densho-259-426)
img Nisei children drinking milk (ddr-densho-259-426)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi, Roku and Shu [Yasui], sucking on what appear to be milk bottles taken in front of the dilapidated wooden storage shed attached to our old home on Third Street. We always used to call that side room the hisashi. That old hisashi was always a scary place to me, because it …
Nisei children on a stagnant slough (ddr-densho-259-427)
img Nisei children on a stagnant slough (ddr-densho-259-427)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi, Shu and Roku, standing on a cracked, dried up lake bed. Michi is holding a fishing pole, and it looks like Roku is holding a gun as tall as he. Shu is in the middle What looks like a dried lake bed actually was the remains of a big stagnant slough, …
Nikkei man holding fish (ddr-densho-259-428)
img Nikkei man holding fish (ddr-densho-259-428)
Unidentified Nikkei man holding fish in front of an automobile.
Young Nisei boy holding a puppy (ddr-densho-259-429)
img Young Nisei boy holding a puppy (ddr-densho-259-429)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Roku [Yasui] holding what appears to have been a young black puppy."
Issei Yale Law graduate in cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-430)
img Issei Yale Law graduate in cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-430)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Young Japanese man in a cap and gown. Although I don't know who the man was on the photograph it says 'Yale Law -- '11' He had to have been an Issei, and to have graduated from such a prestigious school then, indicated a very talented young man."
Two Nisei children (ddr-densho-259-431)
img Two Nisei children (ddr-densho-259-431)
Two unidentified Nisei children standing outside.
Japanese man behind screen cut-out (ddr-densho-259-433)
img Japanese man behind screen cut-out (ddr-densho-259-433)
Unidentified man wearing Japanese clothing, standing behind a screen cut-out.
Nikkei man wearing a cap and Japanese clothing (ddr-densho-259-435)
img Nikkei man wearing a cap and Japanese clothing (ddr-densho-259-435)
Portrait of an unidentified Nikkei man wearing a cap and Japanese attire.
Four Nisei children in yard (ddr-densho-259-441)
img Four Nisei children in yard (ddr-densho-259-441)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Shu, Roku, Michi & Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] at the Third Street home."
Tenchosetsu celebration (ddr-densho-259-444)
img Tenchosetsu celebration (ddr-densho-259-444)
Gathering of Issei for the celebration of Tenchosetsu, a day to pray for the long life of the emperor and a celebration of Emperor Taisho's birthday.
Gathering of Issei men (ddr-densho-259-445)
img Gathering of Issei men (ddr-densho-259-445)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A gathering of a large group of Issei men, sitting and standing in a grassy meadow. There is an American flag prominently displayed and there are unidentifiable steamers on tall poles The tall bluff in the left background reminds me of what the area immediately to the west of Koberg's Beach used …
Portrait of Nisei man in a suit (ddr-densho-259-447)
img Portrait of Nisei man in a suit (ddr-densho-259-447)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Harry Iwatsuki, the son of Kamegoro and Shizue Iwatsuki." Signature: "Sincerely Harry."
Fourth of July parade (ddr-densho-259-448)
img Fourth of July parade (ddr-densho-259-448)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "An early Hood River parade, showing the [Hood River] Japanese marching up Oak Street in medieval costumes, probably during the Fourth of July. According to Ruth Guppy, this parade was held on July 4, 1914, following a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado at Coe's Spring...[Masuo Yasui] can be seen in …
Fourth of July parade (ddr-densho-259-449)
img Fourth of July parade (ddr-densho-259-449)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another view of the Fourth of July parade, 1914, passing by the First National Bank, Hood River, Oregon."
Nisei boy standing in doorway (ddr-densho-259-450)
img Nisei boy standing in doorway (ddr-densho-259-450)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui], in the doorway of our Third Street home."

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