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img "Demonstration of wedding ceremony at community hall" (ddr-densho-259-321)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Demonstration of wedding ceremony at community hall."

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img "Group of three Nisei girls" (ddr-densho-259-537)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of three Nisei girls Chieko [Takasumi], who was called 'Chikie' was a very popular Nisei girl in the Hood River Nikkei community."

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img Bear (ddr-densho-259-159)

A bear eating something.

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img Nisei brothers in a garden (ddr-densho-259-467)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Roku and Shu [Yasui]--or maybe it's me--at the Third Street home."

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img "Third Yasui Brothers Store under construction" (ddr-densho-259-284)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "This view [of the third Yasui Brothers Store under construction] was looking north northwest. The brick building to the left was the Hood River Hotel. The wooden building with the cupola and the verandas on both the first and second stories was the old Mt. Hood Hotel."

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img Mother and children on the sidewalk (ddr-densho-259-40)

Shidzuyo Yasui with her children Tsuyoshi ("Ches") and Minoru.

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img Nisei baby (ddr-densho-259-421)

Yuka Yasui as a baby.

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img "Portrait of a Nikkei family" (ddr-densho-259-391)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of a Nikkei family. This was the 'George' (Y)Eitaro and Hama (Sato) Yamaki family, first of Oak Grove, then of Pine Grove, Oregon. Front, [left to right]: Hama, Shigenobu, Eitaro. Back, [left to right]: William, Eiko, Mitsuko, Hideo Sato."

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img Portrait of Nikkei man (ddr-densho-259-418)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Kamematsu Norimatsu."

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img "Demonstration of wedding ceremony at community hall" (ddr-densho-259-322)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Demonstration of wedding ceremony at community hall."

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img Japanese American and white men and boys at St. Marks church (ddr-densho-259-262)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "St. Marks Church in Hood River, showing [Masuo Yasui], several Issei men, a Caucasian minister, and remarkably, a Japanese minister not Isaac Inouye. St. Marks was either a Catholic or Episcopalian church--or maybe it was a Lutheran church. In any event, the two clerics are wearing their collars backwards, as Catholic and …

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img Four Nisei children on tricycles and wagons (ddr-densho-259-188)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Four little kids on various vehicles on a sloping sidewalk. From left to right, Roku [Yasui], Michi [Yasui], Rin Karasawa & Min[oru Yasui]. This was taken at the Karasawa home, which doubled as their laundry on Oak Street."

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img Campfire party (ddr-densho-259-400)

Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Campfire party at Hendersons."

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img Nisei children by doorway (ddr-densho-259-451)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Michi, Roku and Shu [Yasui] standing near the doorway of our Third Street home."

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img Hood River Japanese Methodist Church Orchestra (ddr-densho-259-323)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Hood River Japanese Methodist Church orchestra. This was not the same organization as the band. Here LeRoy (?) Burns was the orchestra organizer, leader and instructor. I think that Rev. [Isaac] Inouye just lent moral support. Notice that on the bass drum...it reads, 'H.R.H.S.', and 'Japanese'...HRHS of course stood for Hood …

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img Four Nisei children at home (ddr-densho-259-129)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[A picture] showing the stair-stepping sizes of the early Yasui kids at home."

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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."

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img Young Nisei man in tam (ddr-densho-259-242)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay [Yasui] wearing a white tam standing in the doorway of what looks like the hisashi (attached shed) to our Third Street [Hood River] home."

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img Five Nisei siblings (ddr-densho-259-468)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Kay, Ches [Tsuyoshi], Min[oru], Yuki and Michi [Yasui] at the Third Street home. There aren't many pictures of Yuki, since she died in 1922, just two months short of her fourth birthday. I think that she died of pneumonia, or maybe it was influenza."

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img "Yasui Brothers Second store" (ddr-densho-259-303)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large gathering of mostly Issei men along the south side of the second [Yasui Brothers] store."

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img "Issei women hoeing strawberries" (ddr-densho-259-274)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Two Issei women hoeing strawberries This picture is interesting because it shows them wearing long dresses with long sleeves, and large straw hats. This kind of attire for farm work wasn't the functional and comfortable clothing that the Issei farm women used to wear in our day. Also it shows very well …

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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 …

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img Two Nisei children (ddr-densho-259-431)

Two unidentified Nisei children standing outside.

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img Young People's Christian Conference (ddr-densho-259-304)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Another posed group of YPCC [Young People's Christian Conference] attendees this time in Hood River, and taken in front of the Hood River High School auditorium."

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img Japanese American family in formal attire (ddr-densho-259-3)

Formal portrait of Masuo and Shidzuyo with their baby, Kay.

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