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Black and White Negative
Music performance portrait, string orchestra, Miyashita
November 16, 1935.The man in the center is Mr. Miyashita. He conducted the local Oriental Orchestra circa 1925, and performed at Nippon Kan.

Web Exhibition: #308

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt sent a reassuring letter to James Sakamoto of the Japanese American Citizens League telling him of the government's plan to make evacuation decent and comfortable and to safeguard the evacuees from violence.

Black and white image
Mrs. Hosokawa's flower arranging group. July 30, 1940. Front row: far left, Yoshiye Nakano; fourth from left, Mrs. Kataoka, Japanese Language School teacher.

Web Exhibition: #386

Article reporting the new officers of the Seattle Public Library Board, which includes Clarence Arai as the new vice president.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt replied to a letter from James Y. Sakamoto, chairman of the Emergency Defense Council of the Japanese American Citizens League, in which she stated that she was sure the government would do its best to provide for persons of…

A collection of stories on the Chinese experience in the U.S., written at the turn of the century by the daughter of a British father and a Chinese mother. The title story follows the efforts of a Chinese woman in Seattle to Americanize herself, an…

White ceramic coffee mug with blue lettering: "Greater Portland Reunion 1995" Nisei reunion

White ceramic mug "Kawaguchi Travel" and logo printed on side in blue and black.

Cantonese opera transcription in Chinese from the Luck Ngi Musical club for use in the exhibit "A Bridge Home"

Pamphlet; description of the book 'Mukashi Mukashi Long, Long Ago' describing the history of the Seattle Buddhist Temple.