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| Title | Yamada's Store, interior, Kent, 1929 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1929 |
| Caption | Interior view of Yamada's store located at 1st Avenue and Gowe Street, Kent.
People in photograph, left to right: Ted Yamada, Masato Yamada, Noboru Makiyama.
Masato Yamada was the store owner. He was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He was married to Suzue Mizupa in Seattle in 1927. They resided in Kent and set-up a general store and a collection point for produce consigned by local Japanese farmers.
In 1942, with their three sons, they relocated to Vale in Eastern Oregon. |
| Notes | Date supplied by White River Valley Museum.
Source of caption information: notes filed with image and White River Valley Museum staff. |
| Subjects | General stores--Washington (State)--Kent
Merchandise displays--Washington (State)--Kent
Japanese Americans--Employment--Washington (State)--Kent
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| Classification | Kent, WA/People/Japanese American |
| Personal Names | Makiyama, Noboru
Yamada, Masato
Yamada, Ted |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Kent |
| Digital Collection | White River Valley Museum Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 3725 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: hpittenger@auburnwa.gov. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | White River Valley Museum (Auburn) |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 8 1/2 x 11 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | A photographic print was scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color or 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 or 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
