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Kigen nisen-roppyakunen hōshuku kinen taikan

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Description: Japanese-American directory for Los Angeles, Southern and Central California, and parts of Arizona issued in celebration of the 2600th anniversary of the founding of Japan. Includes many black and white and some color photographic advertisements, family portraits and images of workers and customers at numerous businesses, schools and community or social organizations.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1940.
Call number: 653393
Provenance: Purchased from Kate Mitas, Bookseller, February 2021.
Dimensions: 23 cm
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Panama Taiheiyō Bankoku Daihakurankai. Dai 1 = The Panama Pacific International Exposition

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Published in anticipation of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. Gives plans and aims of the Exposition as well as discussing the history of the Panama Canal and United States-Japan trade relations and the history of Japanese migrants to the United States. Extensive advertisements of Japanese businesses and directory of Japanese residents in California are also included.

653618

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Shōwa yonendo Renshū Kantai junkō kinen

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Album to commemorate the Japanese Naval Training Squadron's 1929 world tour. Two war ships, the Iwate and the Asama were at sea from March to December. They toured Japan in March, then set off for Korea and China in April before returning to Japan. In July, the ships set off for their Pacific and North American tour. They visited Honolulu, Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Havana, and Baltimore and reached New York in October. On their return journey, they visited Manzanillo, Mexico, Hilo, Hawaii, and some of the Micronesian islands, including Sipan and Chuk. The ships returned to Yokosuka, Japan in December 1929. The majority of illustrations are photomechanical prints of black and white photographs.The album contains a photographic record of all ports visited as well as vignettes of each of the countries visited. The portraits of the crews including their names, ranks and details of their daily routines are provided. Local Japanese populations at many ports turned out to greet ths ships and the receptions, many including local dignitaries, are depicted in the album.

653035

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Photographs of Imadegawa Kindergarten and Christian missionaries in Japan

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A group of nine large, mounted photographs depicting the Imadegawa Kindergarten in Kyoto, Japan; Japanese teachers and medical workers; and American Christian missionaries in Kobe, Japan. The Imadegawa Kindergarten was one of many Christian kindergartens established by American missionaries in 19th century Japan. Six photographs dated 1903 show Japanese children in the classroom or outdoors with their American and Japanese teachers. A group photograph depicts members of the American Board Mission in Japan, including prominent educators Annie L. Howe and Eliza Talcott. The photographs have credits for photographers K. Hino, M. Hori, and S. Kobayashi of Kyoto.

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Photographs of Imadegawa Kindergarten and Christian missionaries in Japan

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Taishō Jūsan, Jūyonen Renshū Kantai junkō kinen

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Commerative photographic album of the Japanese Naval Training Squadron's world tour between November 1924 and April 1925. Photographs include portraits of the officers and crew, and photographs of the numerous ports of call, including receptions with local authorities and Japanese communities. Highlights include calls at San Francisco, Vancouver, B.C. and Honolulu, Hawaii. Captions and text in Japanese. A folded color map is included in a pocket at the end. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on cover, gitl edges, corded tassle ties. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape on inside.

653958

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Bankoku shinbunshi

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Edited by Michael Buckworth Bailey the British consular chaplain in Yokohama. This was one of the earliest newspapers in Japan and provided a mixture of news, history, advertisements and information about western culture for a Japanese audience.

653600

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