Oak Park Base Ball Club Photograph, 1939

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Oak Park Base Ball Club Photograph
Dates:
1939
Creators:
Oyama, Ushizo and McBride Rare Books
Abstract:
An engaging portrait of the Oak Park Baseball Club of Sacramento, California, taken in 1939 by local Japanese photographer Ushizo Oyama.
Extent:
1 item
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Oak Park Base Ball Club Photograph, MC347, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

An engaging portrait of the Oak Park Baseball Club of Sacramento, California, taken in 1939 by local Japanese photographer Ushizo Oyama. Oyama opened his studio in Sacramento during the 1920s and operated his business there until the outbreak of World War II. He was imprisoned at the internment camp in Amache, Colorado, where he was eventually allowed to continue his practice and to document sporadically the life and residents of the camp. The present photograph from just before the war shows eleven Japanese-American teenagers and children in various baseball attire, flanked by two older Japanese coaches. Oak Park, the namesake of the club, was one of several neighborhoods south of downtown Sacramento that made up the city's now defunct Japantown; the names of those pictured are etched into the negative along the lower edge of image.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from McBride Rare Books, 2021.
Physical location:
Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Physical description:
1 photograph portrait, 8 x 10 inches. Loose in studio mat.
Physical facet:
photograph portrait, 8 x 10 inches. Loose in studio mat.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Vanessa Cardona Ocegueda
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-07-24 16:38:20 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Oak Park Base Ball Club Photograph, MC347, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621