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"Family portrait of a young Japanese family" (ddr-densho-259-181)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Family portrait of a young Japanese family." Fumi and Saburo Miyake, the brother and sister-in-law of Shidzuyo Miyake, and their daughter, Midori Miyake.
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Japanese woman in kimono (ddr-densho-259-114)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Midori Miyake taken in Japan in kimono. She is our first cousin, who was born in Hood River, Oregon (actually, Pine Grove, on our family farm), where her father Saburo Miyake, worked the orchard and the berry field."
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Family portrait in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-240)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese print showing more of the Miyake's in Japan. I recognize Aunt Fumi, Cousin Midori Miyake and Grandma Hisa Miyake."
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Nisei girl and cousin in Japan (ddr-densho-259-290)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui] and cousin Midori [Miyake] in Japan, summer of 1940."
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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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Grandmother and grandchildren on a settee (ddr-densho-259-47)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Hisa Fujii Miyake, my maternal grandmother, with Saburo Miyake's three young children on a settee."
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"Saburo Miyake factory, Nanukaichi" (ddr-densho-259-551)
Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Saburo Miyake factory, Nanukaichi [Japan]."
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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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Textile factory workers in Japan (ddr-densho-259-295)
Saburo Miyake's textile factory. Caption by Homer Yasui: "A textile or weaving factory, with the relatives and workers inside the shop. I've always understood that Saburo's and [Shidzuyo Yasui]'s father, Ichiro, ran a fishnet making factory. On the machine just before it reaches the completed roll of fabric, the material does look like netting."
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Nisei girl visiting family in Japan (ddr-densho-259-280)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi [Yasui] visiting the Miyake relatives, when she went there for a visit alone, in the summer of 1940."
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 16 (October 16, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-42)
Selected article titles: "Issei red cap, working at Seattle's King St. station since opening day in 1906, retires" (p. 1), "Ike congratulates Issei 100 years old" (p. 1), "San Francisco Bay area surpassing Los Angeles in production of cut flowers" (p. 1), "Repeal of Arizona Alien Land Act Sought by JACL" (p. 2), "U.S. Supreme Court …
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Memoirs 1943 - Minidoka High School Yearbook (ddr-densho-474-48)
Yearbook for the Minidoka High School, property of Starr Urakawa. The school included grades 8-12. Individual students are photographed in senior portraits or class photos. Student activities are represented, including student labor/work experience program ("part-time workers"), May Day royalty, and sports. Student signatures are included throughout the book.