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19 items
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Tomoe and Yoshino Otsu (ddr-ajah-6-924)
Caption below photo: Tomoe Otsu and her mother, Yoshino, of Alameda, CA. Circa late 1920's
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Yoshino Otsu standing in garden (ddr-ajah-6-931)
Caption below photo: Yoshino Otsu, an Issei woman from Alameda, CA. Circa 1930s
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Two women with parasols next to large nopal cactus (ddr-ajah-6-927)
Caption below photo: Mrs. Kora and Yoshino Otsu, both of Alameda, CA. Circa 1930s.
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Woman and two girls outside church (ddr-ajah-6-918)
Caption below photo: L to R: Kinue, Tomoe and their mother, Yoshino Otsu in Alameda, CA. Circa early 1920s.
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Portrait of woman and two children (ddr-ajah-6-915)
Caption below photo: Yoshino Otsu with her daughters Kinue (left) and Tomoe of Alameda, CA. Tomoe was born December 14, 1917
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Portrait of Yoshino Otsu with Tomoe and Kinue (ddr-ajah-6-922)
Caption below photo: L to R: Tomoe, Yoshino and Kinue Otsu, of Alameda, CA., circa early 1920s. Tomoe was born December 14, 1917.
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Four women outside house (ddr-ajah-6-913)
Caption below photo: Issei women pose in Alameda, CA, August 1950
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Group of women in aprons and bonnets bowing (ddr-ajah-3-348)
Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …
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Group of women in aprons and bonnets beating on pots and pans (ddr-ajah-3-347)
Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …
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Group of women in aprons and bonnets beating on pots and pans (ddr-ajah-3-346)
Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …
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Portrait of family group (ddr-ajah-6-916)
Caption below photo: Mrs. Kora and Yoshino Otsu appear in a number of photos together, but whether they were related is open to question. The families lived in Alameda, CA. Tomoe is Yoshino's daughter. Tomoe was born on December 15, 1917, making this photo likely the late 1920s.
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Portrait of three women and two men (ddr-ajah-6-935)
Page titled: A Family Portrait? Page includes discussion of the connections between the individuals in the portrait.
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Family portrait of Tomoe and Susumu Tomine (ddr-ajah-6-948)
Caption below photo: L to R: Tomoe Tomine, Yoshino Otsu (Tomoe's mother), Shinya "Chris" Tomine and Susumu Tomine. Shinya is Tomoe and Susumu's son. The Tomines were still incarcerated in Tule Lake, CA for this photo. Tomoe was from Alameda, CA., and the family would settle there after the war ended. July 1945 photo
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Group of women in aprons and bonnets beating on pots and pans (ddr-ajah-3-345)
Caption below photo: Kitchen Music We think the Issei women in this photo were having some fun, beating on kitchen pots and pan to 'make music'. Perhaps it was a rehearsal for a performance at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., where this photo was shot, 1915-1933, when the photographer, Takuritsu Morita, lived in Oakland and …
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Seven women on stage in costume (ddr-ajah-3-320)
Caption below photo: Entertainment on stage at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA, circa 1950s. Backdrop screen painted by Shigeru Yamamoto
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Photo of members of the Otsu and Ushijima families with text of Dorothea Lange's work documenting Evacuation Day in Centerville, California (ddr-ajah-2-840)
Image titled: Reconstructing Dorothea Lange, the JACL and the Japanese in Centerville
