Mayor Fletcher Bowron at a Nisei festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1940

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Title: Mayor Fletcher Bowron at a Nisei festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created: 1940
Date: 1940
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description: "Nisei" are the second-generation Japanese Americans who founded the annual festival in 1934 to attract business to the Little Tokyo area and promote goodwill in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron poses with Japanese American women at a Neisi festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

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Extent: 1 photograph

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Names: Bowron, Fletcher, 1887-1968
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Events
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Culture
Japanese American neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles
Ethnic festivals
Japanese Americans

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