Oak Park Base Ball Club Photograph MC347
Vanessa Cardona Ocegueda
University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections
2023
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Davis, CA 95616-5292
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Title: Oak Park Base Ball Club Photograph
Creator:
Oyama, Ushizo
source:
McBride Rare Books
Identifier/Call Number: MC347
Physical Description:
1 item
photograph portrait, 8 x 10 inches. Loose in studio mat.
Date: 1939
Abstract: An engaging portrait of the Oak Park Baseball Club of Sacramento, California, taken in 1939 by local Japanese photographer
Ushizo Oyama.
Physical Description: 1 photograph portrait, 8 x 10 inches. Loose in studio mat.
Physical Location: Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Language of Material:
English
.
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from McBride Rare Books, 2021.
[Identification of item], Oak Park Base Ball Club Photograph, MC347, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University
of California, Davis.
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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sacramento (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Sacramento County (Calif.) -- History
Japanese Americans -- California -- Pictorial works
McBride Rare Books