Guide to the George Nakamura Photograph Album MC324
Liz Phillips
University of California, Davis Library,
Dept. of Special Collections
2021
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of
California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library,
Dept. of Special Collections
Title: George Nakamura Photograph Album
Creator:
Nakamura, George
Identifier/Call Number: MC324
Physical Description:
1
volume
Eighty-six photographs on twenty-one leaves. Oblong
octavo album. Original black cloth covers, string-tied with
black paper leaves.
Date: circa 1936
Abstract: Photograph album
kept by Sacramento-area student George Nakamura showing him and
his friends during what is presumed to be his senior year of high
school.
Physical Location: Researchers should
contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
George Nakamura was a high school student in the Sacramento
area in the mid-1930s.
Photograph album kept by student George Nakamura showing him
and his friends during what is presumed to be his senior year of
high school. The first few images show several posed group
portraits of young Asian-American men taken in front of the high
school building, some of them wearing athletic letters. There are
many photos of individuals, and though the photos are
uncaptioned, some of them are inscribed to George by the subject.
One series of photos seems to depict graduation day, with
students in gowns and family portraits. One image of a group of
young women shows them outside the Hotel Berry, leading us to
identify the location of these photos as Sacramento. Farther back
in the album is a series of larger, formal graduation portraits,
most of them inscribed and taken in cap-and-gown.
[Description provided by McBride Rare Books]
Collection is open for research.
Liz Phillips created this finding aid with information
supplied by McBride Rare Books.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from McBride Rare Books, 2021.
[Identification of item], George Nakamura Photograph Album,
MC324, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library,
University of California, Davis.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Japanese Americans -- California --
Pictorial works
Nakamura, George -- Archives
Michael and Margaret B. Harrison
Western Research Center