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Japanese Agricultural Organization Photograph
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Title: Japanese Agricultural Organization Photograph
Creator:
Oyama, Ushizo
source:
McBride Rare Books
Identifier/Call Number: MC346
Physical Description:
1 item
Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, in a stamped mat 11.25 x 13.25 inches.
Date: 1939
Abstract: A large group portrait of the Japanese Agricultural Association of Sacramento, California, taken in 1939 by local Japanese
photographer Ushizo Oyama.
Physical Location: Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored off site.
Language of Material:
English
, Japanese
.
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from McBride Rare Books.
[Identification of item], Japanese Agricultural Organization Photograph, MC346, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis
Library, University of California, Davis.
A large group portrait of the Japanese Agricultural Association 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 sporadically allowed
to document the life and residents of the camp. The somber-looking group in the present portrait appears to be looking at
two different photographers -- some of the people looking straight ahead while others peer off to their right. They are arranged
in three rows, seated and standing in front of a rural building draped in the flags of the United States and Japan. The negative
caption is written entirely in Japanese, but the first portion of the text translates roughly to "Japanese Agriculture Meeting;"
the names of the men (and one woman) are noted on the verso on the image, row by row. In a mat stamped with the imprimatur
of the Oyama Studio.
[Description provided by McBride Rare Books]
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
Agriculture -- California -- Sacramento County -- History
Japanese Americans -- California.
McBride Rare Books