Manuscripts

Trade design manuals

Description: Includes Vogue in Flowers for weddings and Album of Designs for funerals.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1950s?-1980s
Call number: mssSK
Provenance: Gift of Kozawa Family Trust, February 2020.
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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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Extended family

Manuscripts

Extended Kawakami, Sakai, and Kozawa families; bulk is of Saichi and Chizu Kawakami, their children and grandchildren, especially Kawakami family weddings. Some portraits represent early years in California as well as family in Japan (box 36, 38), and Sakai family funerals, 1920s.

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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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Panoramic and oversize photographs

Manuscripts

Consists of panoramic photographs of Manzanar depicting buildings and people, Tennis Club? (box 52, folder 3 and oversize folder 4); family funerals of Hisae Kawakami, 1938, and Akira Dan Sakai, 1941 (oversize folder 3); and group school photos including Marshall High School class of 1936 (oversize folder 4), and a school in San Fernando, 1930 (oversize folder 2). Oversize color photographs are of flora, most likely the Tokio Florist Hyperion Avenue property, 1990s (box 51, folder 5).

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Work by unidentified designers

Manuscripts

Includes design for Hamlet and otherwise unidentified designs and designers. Also includes unidentified photograph of set design for a bedroom, circa 1950s-1960s.

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Tokio Florist arrangements

Manuscripts

Publicity and wedding photos that most likely depict Tokio Florist floral arrangements, including from the March of Dimes and a Valentine's arrangement for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Also some Polaroids and snapshots of arrangements. Informal snapshots of Tokio Florist flowers and properties are found in photo albums and snapshots.

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