Portrait of Matao Koga
PARTNER
Alameda Japanese American History Project
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OBJECT ID
ddr-ajah-6-179 (Koga-Matao-Portrait-Japan-1)
PARENT COLLECTION
Alameda Japanese American History Project: Family and Community Collection
DESCRIPTION
Caption below photo: Matao Koga as a young man in Japan. He would immigrate to the United State and live in Alameda, CA., where he would eventually make a living as a Benshi, a man who would who Japanese language movies to the Japanese community in California. He was born on May 25, 1892, making this photo circa early to mid 1910s.
DATE
c. 1910's
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Portraits
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
TOPICS
FACILITY
CREATORS
- K. Yoshitake (photographer)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Alameda Japanese American History Project
PREFERRED CITATION
Alameda Japanese American History Project. Densho
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
