Frances Yokoyama Collection, bulk 1940-1950
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Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Frances Yokoyama Collection
- Dates:
- bulk 1940-1950
- Creators:
- Yokoyama, Frances Ruriko, 1920-2004
- Abstract:
- Photos of Frances Yokoyama with her friends and family in the 1940's and 1950's. The photographs are mostly portraits at various locations in the US and Japan.
- Containers:
- box: 2014-2015 Collections
- Extent:
- 1.22 Gigabytes 1 folder; 87 pictures
- Language:
- English and Most writing on the photographs is in English but there is some writing in Japanese.
- Preferred citation:
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[Item], [Collection], Go For Broke National Education Center, Los Angeles, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Photos of Frances Yokoyama with her friends and family in the 1940's and 1950's. The photographs are mostly portraits at various locations in the US and Japan.
Some of the pictures have writing on them indicating that they were sent or given to Frances by her friends.
- Biographical / historical:
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Frances Ruriko Yokoyama was born in 1920 in California. She was sent to Manzanar Incarceration Center with her mother. She was featured in an Ansel Adams photograph in 1943 at Manzanar. In 1947 she married Yoshio Otani in Los Angeles. They had three daughters together. She passed away in 2004.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Nicole McKeon, 2018.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2018-12-04 10:41:27 -0800 .
Access and use
- Preferred citation:
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[Item], [Collection], Go For Broke National Education Center, Los Angeles, California.
- Location of this collection:
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355 East 1st Street, Suite 200Los Angeles, CA 90012, US
- Contact:
- (310) 328-0907