Miss Lil Tokio Alice Watanabe extends an invitation to Mayor Frank L. Shaw for the Nisei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Miss Lil Tokio Alice Watanabe extends an invitation to Mayor Frank L. Shaw for the Nisei festival, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: August 12, 1935
Date: 1935-08-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Text from negative sleeve: 1678, 8/14/35. Fukiko Hori, Miye Fujioka, Alice Watanabe, Mayor Shaw, Mary Ota, Kay Okamoto. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
The first year of the Nisei festival was 1934. The term Nisei was used to signify the second generation, or American-born Japanese who were American citizens. The festival is now [2012] known as Nisei Week. In 1935 the second annual Nisei festival included a banquet, fashion shows, an ondo (folk dance), kendo contests, a pageant tracing Japanese history, flower and tea ceremonies and a parade.
Photograph of mayor Frank Shaw with Nisei festival participants on the steps of the City Hall. Alice Watanabe, the first queen of the Nisei festival, hands the mayor an invitation to the festival in the form of a ribbon-bound scroll. People watch from the top of the steps.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Mayor Invited to Japanese Festival: Heralding the formal opening of the annual Nisei festival in Los Angeles yesterday, "Miss Lil' Tokio," Alice Watanabe, presented Mayor Shaw with an invitation to the festival. Her attendants on invitation trip, from left to right are: Fujiko Hori, Miye Fujioka and Mary Ota [Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 1935: 10]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Murase, Fukiko Hori, b. 1918
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Ota, Mary
Iino, Alice Shizuko Watanabe, 1916-1959
Kawai, Miye Fujioka, b. 1917
Nisei Week (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Okamoto, Kay
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.053986
Latitude: -118.243178
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Festivals--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10039
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ddsmv
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