Names: Nisei Week (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Joseph Mesmer, Mary Franklin and Kay Sugahara at the banquet at the Kawafuku Cafe for the 2nd annual Nisei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Joseph Mesmer wears the same suit and award ribbon in a photograph taken at the Nisei festival banquet on 8/13, 1935, published in the Los Angeles Times on 8/14/1936.
Date:: August 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Joseph Mesmer, Mary Franklin and Kay Sugahara at the banquet at the Kawafuku Cafe for the 2nd annual Nisei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

George Morey, Sam Minami and Saburo Tani performing at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival, 1935

Description:: George Morey, Sam Minami and Saburo Tani performing on a stage in traditional Japanese costumes at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival (later, Nisei Week). One wears a silk brocade robe and holds 2 swords (left), one is dressed in a silk brocade shirt and pants and holdis a bow and sword (center), and one is dressed as a samurai in armor and holds a dagger (right).
Date:: July 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

George Morey, Sam Minami and Saburo Tani performing at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival, 1935

Four youths engaged in Kendo at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival (Nisei Week), Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Harry Andow, Hideuki Yasudo, Yasushi Hara, and Tadao Amemiya engaged in Kendo with their shinai (swords) raised together in one point. They are dressed in kendo uniform, which includes the: men (helmet), keigoki (jacket), do (breastplate), kote (gloves), tare (protects waist and groin), and hakama (trousers).
Date:: August 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Four youths engaged in Kendo at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival (Nisei Week), Los Angeles, 1935

Nisei Week Festival parade float in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1971

Date:: August 23, 1971
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Nisei Week Festival parade float in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1971

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

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.
Date:: August 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Children from Los Angeles Buddhist Federation in traditional dress walking in Los Angeles Nisei Week parade, 1965

Date:: October 4, 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Children from Los Angeles Buddhist Federation in traditional dress walking in Los Angeles Nisei Week parade, 1965

Japanese girls taking part in traditional Ondo dancing during Nisei Week festivities, Los Angeles, 1961

Date:: August 20, 1961
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Japanese girls taking part in traditional Ondo dancing during Nisei Week festivities, Los Angeles, 1961

Japanese American children (contestants) at annual baby show during Nisei Week Festival in Los Angeles, Calif., 1938

Date:: September 1, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Japanese American children (contestants) at annual baby show during Nisei Week Festival in Los Angeles, Calif., 1938

Queen and attendants at seventh annual Nisei Week in Los Angeles, 1940

Date:: August 6, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Queen and attendants at seventh annual Nisei Week in Los Angeles, 1940

Nisei Festival Week Queen and contest finalists, Los Angeles, 1954

Date:: August 17, 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Nisei Festival Week Queen and contest finalists, Los Angeles, 1954