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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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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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Three women standing outside Poston Camp school building (ddr-ajah-6-174)
Caption below photo: Shigeko "Cookie" Koga, center, poses with two friends who were teacher at Poston, Arizona, incarceration camp, just as she was. Cookie was from Alameda, CA. Photo circa 1942-1945

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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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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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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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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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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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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