Ben Ogomori making 50 foot poster in Japanese calligraphy as Nisei Week queen contestants watch in Los Angeles, Calif., 1970
Item Overview
- Title
- Ben Ogomori making 50 foot poster in Japanese calligraphy as Nisei Week queen contestants watch in Los Angeles, Calif., 1970
- Photographer
- Cormier, Don
- Date Created
- August 11, 1970
- Date
- 1970-08-11
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Caption
- WRITING' AN INVITATION--Using a 45-pound nylon brush, Ben Ogomori works on huge poster inviting the public to the Nisei Week Festival that began Monday. The poster, 12 feet wide and 50 feet long, will hang from City Hall. Girls at left are queen contestants.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 5 x 5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Names
- Nisei Week (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.0535703
- Latitude
- -118.2429943
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Events
Women--Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles--1960-1970
Beauty contestants--California--Los Angeles County
Japanese American women--California--Los Angeles County
Culture
Kimonos--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclalat_1429_b659_264673-2
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002w3k2
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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