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Japanese Goodwill Tour, Auburn, 1931
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| Title | Japanese Goodwill Tour, Auburn, 1931 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1931 |
| Caption | Auburn hosts and two visiting Tokyo educators pose behind and on the rear platform of a Northern Pacific observation car.
Included in the photograph are: Auburn Mayor J.W. McKee (far left), Harry K. Fukuhara (top, 2nd from right), Kinu Fukuhara (front, 2nd from right) and members of the Ota, Kano, Kaneshige, Yamada, Okada, Itaya, Mino, Natori, Yasumura and Saiki families.
In January, 1931, the Auburn Chamber of Commerce and the Auburn Japanese Association were joint hosts to two visiting Tokyo teachers, who were on a Goodwill tour by train to various cities on the west coast sponsored by the O.S.K. steamship line. |
| Notes | Note filed with image identifies all people standing on the ground (with the exception of the two boys in front) as follows, left to right: J.W. McKee, Mrs. Kaneshige, S. Okada, Grandmother Itaya, Mrs. Itaya, Haru Minu Tatsumi, Grace Ota Tatsumi, Mabel Natori, Mary Yasumura, Mrs. Saiki, Mrs. Ota.
The same note identifies selected people on the railroad car, as follows: Ota (far left), Kano (fourth fro left), Yamada (sixth from left, in back), Yamada (eighth from left, in back), Kaneshige (third from right), H.K. Fukuhara (second from right).
On railroad car in image: North Coast Limited.
Source of caption information: White River Valley Museum staff. |
| Subjects | Cultural relations--Washington (State)--Auburn
Teachers--Japanese
Japanese Americans--Social life--Washington (State)--Auburn
Northern Pacific Railway Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)--Auburn
Mayors--Washington (State)--Auburn
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| Classification | Auburn, WA/People/Japanese-Americans |
| Personal Names | Fukuhara, Harry Katsuji
Fukuhara, Kinu
McKee, John (Jack) W.
Ota, Grace |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Auburn |
| Digital Collection | White River Valley Museum Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 583 |
| 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 x 10 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. |
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