Manuscripts
Kurt Jooss – Lea Luboshutz
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Portraits
Manuscripts
Primarily professional matted portraits in various sizes of individual family members and family events, especially weddings. Also funerals, school and group portraits, and studio-taken images of the Roscoe ranch and gardens. Family friends portraits are mostly weddings. Bulk taken in Los Angeles, many by the Toyo Miyatake Studio, with a few from Japan.
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Panoramic photograph of the War Relocation Center in Manzanar, California
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A panoramic photograph of the Japanese American incarceration camp at Manzanar, California, known as the War Relocation Center. The image was taken from a tower along the camp boundary, and shows rows of military-style bunkers, dirt roads, and surrounding desert, with the Sierra Nevada Mountains prominent in the background; no people appear in the photograph. The print is titled and credited in the lower left corner, part of which says: "Copyrighted by Manzanar Cooperative Enterprises, Inc." This was a prisoner-run co-op established in 1943 with the War Relocation Authority. Cameras were not allowed to be used by prisoners, so a cooperative photo studio was established to centralize these services. The studio, run by Toyo Miyatake, performed all work for the school annuals and for WRA administrators. It is likely this image was printed by Toyo Miyatake while he was imprisoned there. It is not signed by him, but Archie Miyatake (Toyo's son), stated in a later interview that panoramic photographs were most often stamped with Manzanar Cooperative and that Toyo signed only smaller size prints.
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Panoramic photograph of Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin (Koyasan Buddhist Temple) opening in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
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A panoramic photograph documenting the opening and dedication of the newly-built Koyasan Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, on October 26, 1940. The photograph shows a large number of temple officials, patrons, supporters, and worshippers posing in front of the temple, including dozens of children wearing traditional clothing, and several Japanese American Boy Scouts. The photograph is captioned in Japanese and has a dual photography credit written in English for Toyo Miyatake and Izuo Studio.
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Sheet music
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Includes music titled: Our Los Angeles, a song of the southland by Dick Dixon and Shelley Roane Vier; and Los Angeles, 1932 Olympic March Song. Also includes a small piece of leather signed by John Philip Sousa in 1911 with hand drawn musical notes.
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DVDs and VHS, (1978-2001)
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Included: Interflora World Cup 97 1-7 September Amsterdam The Netherlands; Japanese American National Museum: The Nisei Legacy, Sharing the Promise of America; 1996 Xmas UTB Xmas Interviews at Flower View Gardens, 1996; FTD Convention, Boston, 1988; Something Strong Within: A Film by Robert A. Nakamura; A Tradition of Honor; Japanese American National Museum Toyo Miyatake, Infinite Shares of Gray, 2001; F.T.D. Convention Arthur T. Ito, 1994; Las Floristas Headdress Ball Apr. 1978; Flower View Garden, Program No. 1-12; Top Ni Kiku, Mr. Ito; Home Movies Disc 1; Home Movies Disc 2; Go For Broke: National Education Center, Alice Ito 1 of 2; Go For Broke: National Education Center, Alice Ito, 2 of 2; World & Weavings Songs; Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Engineering; Beyond Barbed Wire, 1997; Arthur T. Ito, Oral History Program
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California Federation of Women's Clubs: Los Angeles, press clippings
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Includes clippings and photographs promoting women in Los Angeles County. Program glued to painted decorative album cover reads, "California Federation of Women's Clubs. By Mrs. Leiland A. Irish, Oress Chairman. Los Angeles District. Twenty-Third Annual Convention. Glendale, California, April 8, 9, and 10, 1924." Includes folder of loose items from album.
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