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Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa


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    Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa

    Manuscripts

    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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    Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa

    Manuscripts

    Primarily photographs of Manzanar, including numerous reproductions of Ansel Adams photos as well as snapshots of Sumi Sakai and others, some with captions. There are a few images of the library staff in 1943 and several of young men in military uniforms both at Manzanar and in Europe, presumably sent to Sumi. A number of photos depict an excursion of Sumi and friends possibly occurring after the war ended but before return to Los Angeles, along with stock photos of the Mojave Desert.

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    Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa loose items removed from album in box 22

    Manuscripts

    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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    Etsuko Rose Sakai

    Manuscripts

    Snapshots of the Sakai and Kawakami families at Roscoe, also excursions to Forest Lawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, and the zoo; and a class graduation photo, possibly high school, from 1936.

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    Sakai and Kozawa families papers

    Manuscripts

    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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    Immediate family

    Manuscripts

    Portraits of Asakichi and Ura Kawakami, Yuki Sakai and children, Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa, Frank Ukio Kozawa, and Susie Kozawa. Includes baby portraits of Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa and of her in Japan, 1941 (box 35, folder 1) and numerous Susie Kozawa school portraits. Also present are formal photos of the funerals of Ura Kawakami at Manzanar, 1942 (box 38) and of Dan Sakai (box 42); a group portrait of Yuki Sakai and her children, 1930s (box 42); and portraits of Sumi and Miyoko Sakai in kimonos, 1930s (box 43).

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