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    Photograph album of teenage students, possibly in Southern California, and views of a trip to Japan

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    A photograph album of unidentified young women and men, most likely in Southern California, who appear to be school friends or family members. Snapshots show teenagers in front of a large building, in group gatherings and picnicking, as well as in several studio portraits. One portrait shows a teenage girl in a head covering, wearing a cross, possibly related to a convent or Catholic communion. A set of negatives (no prints) found inside the album depict people on a visit to Japan. Scenes include tourists visiting temples, a man riding in a rickshaw, and a woman wearing a kimono, showing ikebana.

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    Souvenir album of the visit to Japan, October 1934, of delegates of the XVth International Red Cross Conference : presented by M. Den, director, Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways

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    A bound souvenir album containing 60 black-and-white photographs of Japan including tourist views of Kyoto, Tokyo, a kabuki play, a tea ceremony, various festivals, shrines and agricultural and industrial landscapes. A typewritten caption accompanies each image. Album has embroidered fabric cover.

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    Kawakami family photograph album

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    A photograph album depicting a Japanese American family in California in the pre-internment period, along with portraits of Japanese family members. There isn't any writing in the album, but one photograph is inscribed "To Mr. S. Kawakami," who may be the compiler. The album begins with formal portraits of family groups in traditional Japanese dress that were most likely taken in Japan. A photograph of a young child laid into the album has Japanese printing on it, and there are a few pressed flowers in the album. Other images show Japanese Americans in California, including the University of California, Berkeley campus; a large group in front of the Berkeley Buddhist Temple on Channing Way, Berkeley; Ocean Park Pier in Santa Monica; downtown Los Angeles; Santa Barbara Mission; and San Francisco. Three images depict a sumo wrestling match that may have taken place in California.

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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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    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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    Emperor of Japan

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    This book presents photographs of the Misasagi, or burial mounds, of all 124 Japanese emperors since the Kofun period, reaching back some 1,600 years. The scenes captured--not of the tombs themselves, but rather the places for worshiping at the tombs, and the surrounding gardens and landscapes--were created by the emperor system, with its claim of an unbroken line of sovereigns, that served as the foundation of the modern nation state of Japan.

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