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[Japanese American family in California photograph album].
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Title:

[Japanese American family in California photograph album]

Abstract:

Artistically compiled album of photographs, chiefly snapshots, depicting domestic scenes and leisure activities of a Japanese American family in California from roughly the 1920s to the early 1940s. Includes many scenes of travel in California. Also includes some studio portraits. Many leaves are decorated with clippings of nature views, flowers, etc. Front cover of album illsutrated with a painting of a flower and a lion.

Date:

1919 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Japanese Americans -- California -- Photographs
Japanese American families -- California -- Photographs
Leisure -- California -- Photographs
California -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer, compiler unknown.
Some leaves include hand-written captions in Japanese.
Photograph laid into album were removed and housed in a folder (PIC).
Japanese American family in California photograph album, BANC PIC 2020.079, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Photograph albums.

Physical Description:

photoprint
approximately 230 photographs in 1 album and 1 folder : gelatin silver prints mounted to paper leaves ; prints various sizes, album 27 x 37 cm

Language:

Japanese

Origin:

California