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| Title | Asahi's Midget baseball team, Seattle, 1919 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1919 |
| Notes | Japanese baseball teams began organizing in Seattle in 1904. Seattle Asahi Club's baseball team was formed in 1912 by some players from the Mikado team, an early Issei (first generation immigrant) team and players from the Cherry baseball team composed of Nisei (second generation). By 1919, the Asahi Club sponsored three baseball teams.
Caption on mount: Midgets B.B. Team, 1919. Japanese characters translated as: L to R: Arai K. [probably Kazuo Arai, 1906-1979. He was sent to Minidoka Internment Camp ca. 1942; at that time his occupation was listed as sales clerk]
[?]
Shibagaki [possibly Shibasaki]
Yamada [possibly Hiroji Yamada b. 1909, Seattle]
Fukuda (coach)
Takada [possibly Takato or Takeda]
Matsui [possibly Heromi Matsui, b. ca. 1906 in Japan]
[?]
Okada [possibly M. Okada b. ca. 1904, Japan, son of K. Okada; or possibly Toshio Okada, b. 1911, Washington]
Seated: Kimura holding Nakamura.
PH Coll 128.22 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Immigrants--Washington (State)--Seattle; Dwellings--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Asahi Club (Seattle, Wash.)--People--Washington (State)--Seattle; Japanese American baseball players--Washington (State)--Seattle; Japanese--Washington (State)--Seattle; Japanese American children--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Concepts | Sports
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Society and Culture Collection
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| Order Number | SOC0613
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank Fukuda Photograph and Ephemera Collection. PH Coll 128 |
| Repository Collection Guide | To view the finding aid for this collection see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/docs/photosgraphics/FukudaFrankPHColl128.xml |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2004. |
