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img Portrait of young woman (ddr-ajah-6-54)

Inscription on photo front: Sincerely, Chiyoko Furuno June, 1936. Caption below photo: Chiyoko Furuno of Alameda, CA, June 1936

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img Portrait of girl in kimono (ddr-ajah-6-820)

Caption below photo: Born in Alameda, but Raised in Japan. Includes biographical information about Hatsuyo Ozeki's time in Japan

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img Mataichi Ozeki using telephone (ddr-ajah-6-786)

Caption below photo: Mataichi Ozeki using a telephone. Alameda, CA circa 1907-1910s.

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img 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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img Wooden sign for Alameda Nursery Co. (ddr-ajah-6-448)

Caption below photo: Measuring 5' 22" across is the wooden sign from Yoyoji "Harry" Ikeda's Alameda Nursery, circa 1950s. It is not the original version of the sign. The nursery closed not long after Harry died on March 19, 1980.

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img Two women and child at Golden Gate International Exposition (ddr-ajah-6-536)

Caption below photo: Toshiko "May" Yeda (left), her mother, Harumi, and friend Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara stroll around the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939, San Francisco's third and last World's Fair. It was also the year that Nazi Germany invaded Europe. Among the items they may have noticed at the World's Fair was the German swastika …

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img Tsutomu Inouye with golf club (ddr-ajah-6-466)

Photo is from an album page with caption on page: 300 yd drive. Caption below photo: Tsutomu Inouye in Alameda, CA., and golf club, circa late 1920s-early1930s.

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img Wedding portrait of Buichi Nakata and Chizuye Katow (ddr-ajah-6-666)

Caption below photo: Buichi Nakata, born in Okayama, Japan on March 13, 1899, marries Chizuye Katow, when she was 18 years old. Chizuye was born November 2, 1909 in Alameda, CA. Buichi died in Menlo Park, CA on September 18, 1987. Chizuye died in Palo Alto on December 18, 1987. They are Florence Nakata Omori's parents.

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img Group of students in classroom (ddr-ajah-6-34)

Caption below photo: Japanese Nisei youth at Porter School in Alameda, CA., circa 1950s. Two students identified: Yasuko Naito and Kiyoshi Naito

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img Close-up of store sign and John S. Towata's name (ddr-ajah-6-252)

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img Group of five women posing for photo on sidewalk (ddr-ajah-6-429)

Caption below photo: Masako Abe, Frances Yasuyo Ikeda, Friends gather for a photo in Alameda, CA, circa late 1940s or 1950s

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img Two women and children on dirt lane (ddr-ajah-6-794)

Caption below photo: A young Hatsuyo Ozeki, center, and her mother, Akino Ozeki (black dress), of Alameda, Ca., circa 1909-1910.

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img Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda sitting on bed inside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-439)

Caption below photo: Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda, of Alameda, CA., in her barracks at 6G-7C at Amache incarceration camp. The back of the chair has her father's name, Yoyoji listed. Note the May 1945 calendar, Roi Tan cigars box and other household items. By July she and her brother, MItsuru, would leave Amache for Sacramento, CA and …

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img Sato family around Christmas tree (ddr-ajah-6-200)

Caption below photo: Toshio Sato (far right), formerly of Alameda, CA. spends Christmas in Dayton, Ohio, where his family moved after World War II ended. December 25, 1951

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img Shizuko Imagire (ddr-ajah-6-139)

Caption below photo: A still well dressed Shizuko Imagire, in late 1986. she died in 1987 in Sacramento, CA.

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doc Document titled "The Americanization of Yemiko" (ddr-ajah-6-265)

Includes photo of Yemiko and Tomiko Kono in kimonos and biographical information about Yemiko

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img Door handle of Towata Florist shop (ddr-ajah-6-247)

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img Portrait of Kanjiro Inouye (ddr-ajah-6-450)

Caption below photo: Kanjiro Inouye of Alameda, CA., circa 1903. Kanjiro, born January 3, 1883 in Japan, arrived from Japan age 20 and worked as a gardener for 52 years in Alameda. He married Natsumo on April 6,1908 in Seattle, WA.

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img Stereo photo of pond with pond lilies (ddr-ajah-6-815)

Caption below photo: Stereo photo by Mataichi Ozeki of Alameda, Ca. He owned a Kodak Stereo One camera. Photo circa 1917-1920s.

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img Four women standing outside house (ddr-ajah-6-275)

Caption below photo: L to R: Nellie Itahara, Marge Kajiwara, Yemiko "Emi or Amy" Kono, Yoshiko Nakata, circa 1930s. They may be dressed for Halloween. Alameda, CA.

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img Alice Nakata standing in robe (ddr-ajah-6-677)

Caption below photo: Alice Nakata of Alameda, CA., circa 1937. She is wearing a robe a she is staying in a sanitarium after contracting tuberculosis. She died of the disease on June 21, 1938 when she was 17-years-old

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img Class photo from Porter School in Alameda (ddr-ajah-6-664)

Caption below photo (with names handwritten): Japanese Nisei youth at Porter school in Alameda, CA. Circa mid to late 1920s

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img Motoyoshi family (ddr-ajah-6-89)

Caption below photo: Rev. Joshin Motoyoshi. He served the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA from 1932 to 1948. Given the youthful appearance of Joshin and Yukiko, this photo was shot early in their time at BTOA. Their children, left to right are Merika, Asoka, and baby Sachimaro.

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