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Frances Yokoyama Collection Finding Aid 2015.024
2015.024
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Go For Broke National Education Center
Title: Frances Yokoyama Collection
creator:
Yokoyama, Frances Ruriko, 1920-2004
Identifier/Call Number: 2015.024
Physical Description:
1.22 Gigabytes
1 folder; 87 pictures
Date (bulk): 1940-1950
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.
Language of Material: Most writing on the photographs is in English but there is some writing in Japanese.
Container: 2014-2015 Collections
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.
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.
[Item], [Collection], Go For Broke National Education Center, Los Angeles, California.
Processed by Nicole McKeon, 2018.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital surrogates can be found at https://ndajams.omeka.net/collections/show/1325
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California
Japan
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century
Manzanar (Concentration Camp)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
World War, 1939-1945