Japanese American Legion members S. Iida, Commander Karl K. Iwanaga, Vice-Commander I. K. Sano, Adjutant T. Koseki, J. Omri, and Standard Bearer W. Tanara, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Japanese American Legion members S. Iida, Commander Karl K. Iwanaga, Vice-Commander I. K. Sano, Adjutant T. Koseki, J. Omri, and Standard Bearer W. Tanara, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

August 1935

Date

1935-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A post of the American Legion has been made up entirely of Japanese men who will be travelling to Fresno for the California State convention for ex-service men.
Photograph appears with the article, "Japanese at Legion's Assembly," Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug 1935: 5.
A group of fifteen men of different ages stand clustered around the American flag and the American Legion flag, each of them wearing their veterans' hats.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1878 - Japanese - L.A. Am. Legion [stamped:] Sep 4 - 1935
Handwritten on negative: Jap. Am. Legion
Text from newspaper caption: The American Legion's only Japanese post left Los Angeles yesterday for the Legion State convention at Fresno. Here is a group of its members: left to right, front row. Color Bearer S. Iida, Commander Karl K. Iwanaga, Vice-Commander I. K. Sano, Adjutant T. Koseki, J. Omri and Standard Bearer W. Tanara. The post is named after Commodore Perry.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Omri, J.
Koseki, T.
Iida, S.
Sano, I.K.
American Legion
Iwanaga, Karl Kiichi, 1892-1961
Tanara, W.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Veterans--American
Flags--American