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1518 items
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Motoki Yatabe and Misue Ozeki standing in garden (ddr-ajah-6-854)
Caption below photo: Motoko Yatabe and Mitsue Ozeki after their April 18, 1947 wedding. The Ozekis were from Alameda, CA., but she was married in nearby Berkeley and this photo could have been made in either location.
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Photo of man and boy on sidewalk outside shop, titled: Kenji Shiota Workin' Man (ddr-ajah-6-228)
Caption includes biographical data about Keiji Shiota
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Framed portrait of seven men seated around table (ddr-ajah-6-646)
Caption below photo: Buddhist Temple of Alameda, Ca., Rev. Motoyoshi arrived at BTOA in 1932, Takuritsu Morita left Alameda for Mountain View, CA in 1933.
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Inouye family portrait (ddr-ajah-6-454)
Caption below photo: 1912 Kanjiro and Natsuno Inouye family of Alameda, CA. Fujio, baby Kazuye
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Two women and girl outside shoe repair shop (ddr-ajah-6-377)
Caption below photo: Chiyoko "Mary" Date (front) poses with her older sister Kiyoko (left) and friend Kiyo Okuma, in front of the family business, Date Shoe Repair, at 2304-2306 Encinal in Alameda, CA. Note the window signage at right, for Goodyear wingfoot sales and heels. circa mid 1930s
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Woman holding child (ddr-ajah-6-233)
Caption below photo: Kame Shiota and son, Rayko, of Alameda, CA circa 1925-1926
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Four women and girl standing on porch (ddr-ajah-6-184)
Caption below photo: Goro Sato marries Kimiko Nakayama in Alameda, CA. Pictured are members of the wedding party. Chiyo is Kimiko's sister (Kimiko is not in this image) November 22, 1936
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Portrait of Shigeko Iwaihara Koga (ddr-ajah-6-168)
Caption below photo: Shigeko Iwaihara graduates from Alameda High School, circa 1931. She would have been about 20. she was sent to japan with her two siblings to live with their grandparents in 1919 for a Japanese education. Perhaps this put her behind in school. She would later marry Matao Koga in 1949.
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How the Ku Klux Klan & Alameda Housewives tried to stop the Alameda Japanese School in 1926 (ddr-ajah-6-237)
Document with photos, clippings and text with history of opposition to the Alameda Japanese School
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Girl's Day decorations (ddr-ajah-6-899)
Caption below photo: Decorations for Girl's day at Risaburo Takeda's house in Alameda, CA. Obutsudan to the right on top of their old piano. Obutsudan still exists as of 2022. Photos circa 1950s
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Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara sitting on rooftop (ddr-ajah-6-516)
Photo part of album page. Caption on page: "Nell" "Stick your tongue in [indecipherable]". Caption below photo: Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara poses on the roof of her parent's 1621 Park Street apartment in downtown Alameda, CA, circa 1928-1929. Two versions of same photo with different dates.
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Clipping about Miyoshi Wada's graduation from San Francisco Junior College (ddr-ajah-6-970)
Article title: SR JC Grad Feted by Alameda Friends
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Mitsue Ozeki standing by car (ddr-ajah-6-846)
Caption below photo: Mitsue Ozeki of Alameda, CA, circa 1940
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Portrait of May Kanda is white dress (ddr-ajah-6-146)
Signed on front: Sincerely, May Kanda 6 '33
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Tomoe Tomine sitting on beach (ddr-ajah-6-942)
Caption below photo: Tomoe Tomine addressed this photo to the man who would soon become her husband, Susumu in 1941. Given her clothing, likely in the summer, not long before Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Imperial Japanese. Inscription on photo: My Darling Susumu, [?]M to love, Tomo 1941
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Two girls in Chigo costumes (ddr-ajah-6-263)
Caption on album page: Amy / Sadie Towata. Caption below photo: Sadako "Sadie" Towata at left, was born in 1916, she passed away in 2008, Yemiko "Emi/Amy" Kono was born in 1915, she passes away in 2012. Alameda, CA, circa mid 1920s
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Man standing by nursery plants (ddr-ajah-6-419)
Caption below photo: Owner of the Alameda Nursery, Yoyoji Harry Ikeda at his business, circa 1930s. Harry is wearing a leather jacket, bow tie, and his trademark striped bib overalls, which were his preferred clothes. "That's his cool stance", said Harry's grandson, Wayne Koike. 2530 Blanding Ave in Alameda, CA
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Kinue and Tomoe Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-919)
Caption below photo: Kinue (left) and sister Tomoe Otsu Alameda, CA. Circa early 1920s.
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Natsuno and Kanjiro Inouye (ddr-ajah-6-453)
Caption below photo: Natsuno & Kanjiro Inouye of Alameda, CA, circa 1910s. Natsuno came from Japan to Washington state at age 17 with no money. She was sent as omiyage to Kanjiro for doing a favor for her father back in Fukuoka.
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Group of men and woman outside house (ddr-ajah-6-778)
Caption below photo: Isseis pose for photographer Mataichi Ozeki. He was from Alameda, Ca., photo circa 1907-1910s.
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Date family outside Date Shoe Repair shop (ddr-ajah-6-359)
Caption below photo: Standing in front of the Date Shoe Repair shop at 2304-2306 Encinal in Alameda, CA. Kiyoko was born in November 18, 1919, Yuriko on June 24, 1922, making this photo circa mid 1920s.
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Two women sitting by fountain (ddr-ajah-6-843)
Caption below photo: Hatsuyo Ozeki (left) and friend Hanae Nakayama, Alameda, CA., circa late 1940s-1950s. Friends since they were young children, in 1912 both were sent back to Japan as children aboard the same chip. They later returned to Alameda, but probably not at the same time.
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Man in bathing suit (ddr-ajah-6-57)
Caption below photo: Taizo Imura of Alameda, CA., August 8, 1931 He is swimming the 800 meters in a competition, but the event is unknown.
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Four children playing in yard (ddr-ajah-6-900)
Caption below photo: L to R: Janet Takeda, Doug Takeda, Arlene Yamashita and Karen Yamashita play at the Takeda house on 2418 Railroad Ave in Alameda, CA, circa 1954