Yasui Family Collection ddr-densho-259
729 items
729 items
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Nisei brother and sisters (ddr-densho-259-476)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Michi and Yuka [Yasui], Third Street home In this photo, the white patches in front of Kay's ears on both sides are bandages. Earlier that summer, in June, 1930, he had gone to some sort of a military camp. It was called C.M.T.C., Camp Hurlburt, Vancouver Barracks, Washington...while there Kay developed …
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Portrait of Issei man (ddr-densho-259-477)
Portrait of Senichi Tomihiro, proprietor of the Foster Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
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Portrait of Nikkei family (ddr-densho-259-478)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another family portrait of the Tomihiro family." Left to right: Senichi Tomihiro, Chiye Tomihiro, and Satoru Tomihiro.
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Nisei brother holding baby sister (ddr-densho-259-479)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Roku [Yasui] holding a baby, Third Street home. Yuka [Yasui] has captioned this baby as being her, but I don't know how she knew this, because the baby's back is to the camera. Maybe it's because this baby was wearing such a huge and baggy diaper that you can't even see its …
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Nisei girl wearing pinafore (ddr-densho-259-480)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui] wearing a pinafore and baggy pants, standing in front of the cement wall, Third Street home."
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Five Japanese American men (ddr-densho-259-481)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] in a group portrait with 4 other Nihonjin men."
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Japanese mother and child wearing kimono (ddr-densho-259-483)
Portrait of an unidentified Japanese mother and child wearing kimono.
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Japanese woman and girls wearing kimono (ddr-densho-259-486)
Portrait of an unidentified Japanese woman and two unidentified Japanese girls wearing kimono.
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Japanese woman wearing kimono (ddr-densho-259-487)
Portrait of an unidentified Japanese woman wearing kimono.
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Portrait of Nikkei family (ddr-densho-259-488)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of the Shohei and Tei Endo family of Willow Flat, Oregon. There have been two spellings for their last name--Endo, as in the Oregon Japanese census of 1928, or Endow, as in Linda Tamura's book, The Hood River Issei. Shohei came to the U.S. in 1908, and Tei, his wife, in …
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Japanese women on tatami mats (ddr-densho-259-489)
Rei Kuga and an unidentified woman wearing kimono sitting on tatami mats.
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"Kuga family from Kumamoto ken" (ddr-densho-259-490)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait in Japan, which Yuka has captioned as the 'Kuga family from Kumamoto ken.' Shown here is a stair-stepping size gradation of their 5 boys."
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Japanese writing over a memorial table (ddr-densho-259-491)
Possibly part of a Shinto memorial service.
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Japanese woman and girls wearing kimono (ddr-densho-259-492)
Portrait of an unidentified Japanese woman and two girls wearing kimono, posed with a stuffed dog.
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Japanese doctor's clinic (ddr-densho-259-493)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "This portrait appears to have been a Japanese doctors' clinic in Japan It shows five Japanese women dressed in white uniforms so they must have been nurses in the clinic. Whom I presume to have been the owner-doctor is dressed in a morning coat and striped pants, and is even wearing dove-gray …
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Japanese woman and children (ddr-densho-259-494)
Unidentified Japanese woman and children wearing kimono.
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Portrait of Japanese family in Nanukaichi (ddr-densho-259-495)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Formal portrait of the Saburo and Fumi Miyake Midori (Saburo & Fumi's firstborn child), Goro, Shiro, Saburo, and Saburo/[Shidzuyo Yasui]'s mother, Hisa Fujii Miyake."
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Portrait of young Japanese women (ddr-densho-259-496)
Portrait of two young, unidentified Japanese women wearing kimono.
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Japanese relatives with a Shinto priest (ddr-densho-259-497)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group portrait of Japanese relatives, with a Shinto priest I don't know the reason for this family gathering of representatives from both sides of our family, but I will guess that it had to do with the deification of one of our ancestors--maybe even Ichiro Miyake."
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Nisei brothers eating rice balls (ddr-densho-259-498)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Min[oru Yasui] & Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] eating what appears to be musabi, also sometimes called onigiri (cooked rice balls) with Mount Hood in the background."
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Three Nisei brothers on steps (ddr-densho-259-499)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi] & Min[oru Yasui], sitting on the steps of what I believe might have been the Yasui Brothers second store in Hood River [Oregon]."
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Issei man in graduation cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-500)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Senichi Tomihiro in cap and gown. This may corroborate Chiye Tomihiro's statement that her father had graduated from a law school in the U.S." Signature on photograph: "Sincerely yours, S. Tomihiro."