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Color silent amateur footage (1940's-early 1950's) taken by Terminal Island resident Ben Fukuzaki, primarily of the Japanese American community in and around Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, and San Pedro, California.

This segment shows a fashion show held by the Academy of Fashion Art (title card says "Fashion Art School"), a Terminal Island fashion school, with Japanese American women and children modeling dresses, suits, sportswear, and other clothes (01:50; dark).

Credit: Ben Fukuzaki Collection, Gift in Memory of Ben Fukuzaki, Japanese American National Museum (2002.1.1-3). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

HNRC — Last modified Aug 24 2012 12:54 a.m.


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