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

Title: Joseph Mesmer, Mary Franklin and Kay Sugahara at the banquet at the Kawafuku Cafe for the 2nd annual Nisei festival, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: August 13, 1935
Date: 1935-08-13
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
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.
Joseph Mesmer (left), Mary Franklin and Kay Sugahara on the night of the banquet of the Nisei festival at the Kawafuku Cafe (then located at the intersection of S. Los Angeles St., E. 1st St. and Weller). Mesmer and Franklin wear ribbons of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County. The banquet honored members of this historical society and prominent elder members of the Los Angeles Japanese community. Joseph Mesmer was a guest of honor at the Nisei festival [Los Angeles Times 8/13/1935].
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Joseph Mesmer, Mrs. Mary Franklin, Kay Sugahara, 8/2/1935
Text from negative sleeve: 1739, Joseph Mesmer, Mrs. Mary Franklin, Kay Sugahara, Chinese Festival, 8/2/35, [stamped;] AUG 28 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Sugahara, Kay, 1909-1988
Nisei Week (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Mesmer, Joseph, 1855-1947
Historical Society of Southern California and of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County
Franklin, Mary, 1847-1943
Kawafuku (Restaurant : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.05145605221780
Latitude: -118.24235737323800
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
People
Festivals--California--Los Angeles
Culture

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10108
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ddw00
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