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Nikkei Album
Masao Akiyama Collection (92.14.1)
Black & white amateur footage of K.M. Akiyama Co. located at 115 N. San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo and color footage of Akiyama family at home and playing in Los Angeles, California filmed by M…
Nikkei Album
Ben Fukuzaki Collection (2002.1)
Color silent amateur footage (1940's-early 1950's) taken by Terminal Island resident Ben Fukuzaki, primarily of the Japanese American community in and around Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, and San Ped…
Nikkei Album
Setsuo Aratani Collection (2004.67)
Black & white silent amateur footage of family and business activities of Setsuo Aratani (1885-1940), filmed 1926-1940. DVD 3: Includes footage of a picnic at the beach, people playing guitars, d…
Nikkei Album
Lloyd Evans Collection (95.73.1)
Color amateur footage of activities at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming filmed by Reverend Stanley T. Evans who visited Rev. Donald Toriumi at Heart Mountain in 1945.
Composed of home movi…
Nikkei Album
Charles Palmerlee Collection (96.47.8)
Color footage shot at Tule Lake by teacher Charles Palmerlee, 1942-1945. Includes hand-made intertitle cards; panning shots of camp barracks; the guard tower at sunset; high school students, includi…
Nikkei Album
Naokichi Hashizume Collection (92.18.9)
Color amateur footage documenting life in Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming by Naokichi Hashizume in February 1945. Composed of home movie clips of Japanese Americans engaged in a variety of…
Nikkei Album
Soshiro Kiyama Collection (2004.7.1)
Black & white footage of the Los Angeles 7th Street produce market, farming, festival at night, family life and a Catholic church service in Los Angeles, California, ca. 1930s.
Includes footage …
Nikkei Album
Rev. Sensho Sasaki Collection (96.150)
Films of Japanese American communities in Los Angeles, Stockton, and Tacoma, 1926-1933, by Buddhist minister, Rev. Sensho Sasaki.
#9: 1) 2 little boys posing for camera;
2) Pan from temple to minist…
Nikkei Album
Dave Tatsuno Collection (91.74.1-8)
Dave Tatsuno (1913-2006) was well known in the Bay Area Nikkei community for operating the Nichi Bei Bussan stores in San Jose and San Francisco, California. His interest in making movies began in 19…
Nikkei Album
Yamada Family Collection (2005.104.1)
Color and b&w; footage of Yamada wedding and a reception at the Kawafuku restaurant in Los Angeles, California, ca. 1930s-1960s. Includes footage of wedding ceremony with opening of presents, wed…
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Episode 17
November 12
5pm PDT | 7pm PET
Featured Nima:
Graciela Nakachi
Guest Host:
Enrique Higa
Presented in Spanish
November 12
5pm PDT | 7pm PET
Featured Nima:
Graciela Nakachi
Guest Host:
Enrique Higa
Presented in Spanish
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