The online exhibit of Wakaji Matsumoto—An Artist in Two Worlds: Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917–1944 highlights an artist’s rare photographs of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles prior to World War II and of urban life in Hiroshima prior to the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
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WAKAJI MATSUMOTO – AN ARTIST IN TWO WORLDS: LOS ANGELES AND HIROSHIMA, 1917–1944
:Asian Pacific American Heritage MonthDaytimeExhibitionFamily FriendlyFreeHistoric PreservationOnline
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