Tabin Kato, Japanese civic leader, hosts a dinner at his cafe for members of the Japanese community, 1920-1936, Los Angeles

Title: Tabin Kato, Japanese civic leader, hosts a dinner at his cafe for members of the Japanese community, 1920-1936, Los Angeles
Date Created: [between 1920-1936]
Date: 1920/1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Perhaps Tabin Kato is the same person as Tomokich (erroneously "Romokich" in Ancestry.com) Kato; both died in Los Angeles on January 12, 1936.
Photograph of over 40 members of the Los Angeles Japanese community gathered in the café of Tabin Kato for a dinner. Kato is seated at a table with a large turkey on a platter next to (former?) police Chief George K. Home. Three boys at the table behind Kato wear scout uniforms.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Teabin Kato, George K. Home
Text from negative sleeve: Tabin Kato, Japanese civic leader & café operator, George K. Home (former police chief), both died Jan. 1926.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13358
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnj96
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