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Masao Akiyama Collection (92.14.1)
June 29, 2008
HNRC
Black & white amateur footage of K.M. Akiyama Co. located at 115 N. San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo and color footage of Akiyama family at home and playing in Los Angeles, California filmed by Mr. Noritake, ca. 1936 and 1941.
Includes fo…
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Ben Fukuzaki Collection (2002.1)
June 29, 2008
HNRC
Color silent amateur footage (1940's-early 1950's) taken by Terminal Island resident Ben Fukuzaki, primarily of the Japanese American community in and around Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, and San Pedro, California. V. 57: Amateur footage t…
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Setsuo Aratani Collection (2004.67)
June 29, 2008
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Black & white silent amateur footage of family and business activities of Setsuo Aratani (1885-1940), filmed 1926-1940. DVD 3: Includes footage of a picnic at the beach, people playing guitars, dancing and singing, the Guadalupe Produce Co…
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Lloyd Evans Collection (95.73.1)
June 29, 2008
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Color amateur footage of activities at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming filmed by Reverend Stanley T. Evans who visited Rev. Donald Toriumi at Heart Mountain in 1945.
Composed of home movie clips of the environment the Japanese …
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Charles Palmerlee Collection (96.47.8)
June 29, 2008
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Color footage shot at Tule Lake by teacher Charles Palmerlee, 1942-1945. Includes hand-made intertitle cards; panning shots of camp barracks; the guard tower at sunset; high school students, including a graduation; school administrators a…
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Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9)
June 29, 2008
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Color amateur footage documenting life in Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming by Naokichi Hashizume in February 1945. Composed of home movie clips of Japanese Americans engaged in a variety of activities, including people gathering …
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Soshiro Kiyama Collection (2004.7.1)
June 29, 2008
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Black & white footage of the Los Angeles 7th Street produce market, farming, festival at night, family life and a Catholic church service in Los Angeles, California, ca. 1930s.
Includes footage of men packing and selling produce at open m…
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Rev. Sensho Sasaki Collection (96.150)
June 24, 2008
HNRC
Films of Japanese American communities in Los Angeles, Stockton, and Tacoma, 1926-1933, by Buddhist minister, Rev. Sensho Sasaki.
#9: 1) 2 little boys posing for camera;
2) Pan from temple to minister's house. People, lots of automobiles.…
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Dave Tatsuno Collection (91.74.1-8)
June 24, 2008
HNRC
Dave Tatsuno (1913-2006) was well known in the Bay Area Nikkei community for operating the Nichi Bei Bussan stores in San Jose and San Francisco, California. His interest in making movies began in 1936 and resulted in this collection of ho…
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Yamada Family Collection (2005.104.1)
June 24, 2008
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Color and b&w; footage of Yamada wedding and a reception at the Kawafuku restaurant in Los Angeles, California, ca. 1930s-1960s. Includes footage of wedding ceremony with opening of presents, wedding procession, san-san-kudo (3 x 3 sake dr…
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