Early family

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  Early family

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  Snapshots of the Sakai family, bulk most likely in the San Diego area in the 1920s, including images of Masao Sakai, Sumi and other Sakai children, beach excursions, polo matches, a car race, and other activities. There are several small loose snapshots in an envelope of Japan that appear to be from a later date.

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  Early family

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  Bulk depict Sakai and other children in the Sunland area with one caption referencing a Hansen Heights school; several depict girls in kimonos; a few images appear to be of family in Japan.

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  Sakai and Kozawa families papers

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  The collection documents multiple generations of the Sakai, Kozawa, Kawakami, and related families primarily in the Los Angeles area from approximately 1890 to 2017 and the family business, Tokio Florist. Family papers contain correspondence, notebooks, property and other records, publications, ephemera, and artifacts. Also present are business records, architectural drawings, and other material related to Tokio Florist, especially at its Hyperion Avenue location, and other family floral business locations in Los Angeles. The collection contains extensive photographic material, including photo albums, snapshots, formal studio portraits, and panoramic photographs. Some correspondence, publications, and photographs document various family members' experiences while incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Family papers and photographs also pertain to extended family in and visits to Japan.

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  Sunao Imoto

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  Photo album titled "Abroad with My Camera and Me" of family friend Sunao Imoto's travels to Japan via San Francisco and Hawaii onboard the Kamakura Maru with Sumi Sakai, departing April 8, 1940. Snapshots document shipboard activities, a lengthy stay of study in Tokyo, and tourist and family visits to Kyoto, rural Southern Japan, and Manchukuo (Manchuria); Imoto's travels around Japan appear to be without Sumi Sakai. Album was created as a gift to Walter and Galetta Van Valkenburgh in December 1941 and contains extensive captions and commentary, including observations on the lives of Japanese women, both urban and rural. Several snapshots depict Imoto's return trip onboard the Montevideo Maru with its mostly European refugee passengers, arriving in Los Angeles on June 11, 1941. Sumi Sakai photo album, 1920s to 1941, also includes snapshots of the same journey to Japan, including Kamakura Maru shipboard images. Also present is a loose War Relocation Authority publicity photo of Sunao Imoto working as a secretary for poet Carl Sandburg following her release from the Poston War Relocation Center, dated May 1944.

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  Early family

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  Includes snapshots of Masao Sakai, Sakai family, and others, and animals; images of Hobart Nursery located at 1624 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles, and floral arrangements; and other activities and unidentified locations.

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  Letters received

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  One letter from a pen pal in Japan; one letter from her mother while in college. 1998 item is addressed envelope only.

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