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15 items
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Matao and Shigeko Koga standing by car after their wedding (ddr-ajah-6-170)
Document including photo of Matao and Shigeko Koga, portion of wedding registry and biographical data about Matao Koga
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Portrait of wedding party (ddr-ajah-6-169)
Caption below photo: Shigeko Iwaihara marries Matao Koga, 1939 Both were from Alameda, CA.
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Document titled Matao and Shigeko Koga in the Days of Japanese cinema in Alameda (ddr-ajah-6-177)
Document including photos, reproductions of posters, clippings, biographical information about Matao and Shigeko Koga, and their film business
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Three people standing next to car outside house (ddr-ajah-6-178)
Caption below photo: Matao Koga, at left, at his 2034 Pacific Avenue home in Alameda, CA. circa 1948. Anyone who knew Matao and his wife, Cookie, remembers the really big black car (a Packard) he drove. The identities of the others are unknown, but could be relatives. The home in the background belongs to the next …
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Portrait of Matao Koga (ddr-ajah-6-179)
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 …
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Document titled: A Japanese Actor arrives in America (ddr-ajah-6-167)
Includes portrait of Matao Koga taken at the T.Y. Sato Studio in San Francisco, portion of ships manifest from 1923 and biographical details of Koga's life
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Shigeko Iwaihara Koga with bridesmaids at her wedding (ddr-ajah-6-171)
Written on photo front: February, 1939. Caption below photo: Shigeko (second from right) Iwaihara's wedding party in Alameda, CA. She married Matao Koga. February 26, 1939
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Wedding portrait of Shigeko Iwaihara and Matao Koga (ddr-ajah-6-172)
Caption below photo: Shigeko Iwaihara marries Matao Koga, February 26, 1939. She was from Alameda, he was from San Francisco. They would live at 2034 Pacific Avenue in Alameda.
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Two men sitting on steps (ddr-ajah-6-238)
Caption below photo: Unknown Issei man (at left) with Matao Koga. Koga immigrated from Japan and lived in San Francisco, CA. He married Shigeko Iwaihara, of Alameda, CA., in 1939. He worked as a Benshi, a man who showed silent movies. Benshi in Japan were as much of an attraction as the stars of the film, …
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Reproduction of movie poster in Japanese and English (ddr-ajah-6-175)
Caption below photo: 1969 movie poster made by Matao and Shigeko Koga. The Koga's two person business, Koga Kogyo Bu, showed Japanese movies to the Japanese born (Isseis) and Japanese American (Nisei) audience throughout California from 1939 to at least 1969. the Kogas were from Alameda, CA. Original size: 13x17"
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Reproduction of movie poster in Japanese and English (ddr-ajah-6-176)
Caption below photo: 1969 movie poster hand made by Matao and Shigeko Koga's two person business, Koga Kogyo Bu, showed Japanese movies to the Japanese born (Isseis) and Japanese American (Nisei) audience throughout California from 1939 to at least 1969. The Kogas were from Alameda, CA. Original size: 13x 17"
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Group posed for photo in backyard (ddr-ajah-6-195)
Caption below photo: The Koga and Sato family pose in the Koga's Pacific Avenue backyard in Alameda, CA, circa 1947-1948. The Sato and Koga families knew each other in Japan before the immigrated to America.
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Shigeko Iwaihara Koga standing by stone lantern (ddr-ajah-6-173)
Caption below photo: Nicely dressed with a scarf and beret is Shigeko "Cookie" Koga, as she poses at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA, on February 26, 1929. She had just married Matao Koga and this photo was probably shot not long after the wedding, as she prepared to go on her honeymoon. The lacy sleeves …
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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.
