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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing [Album given to Rosa Parks from members of the Soka Gakkai Young Women's Division, after the Hanshin earthquake, Japan, 1995]

[ digital file from original item ]

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About this Item

Title

  • [Album given to Rosa Parks from members of the Soka Gakkai Young Women's Division, after the Hanshin earthquake, Japan, 1995]

Summary

  • Photographs in the album show members of a Soka Gakkai, Young Women's Division; a clipping showing Rosa Parks meeting Soka Gakkai President, Daisaku Ikeda (from a 1993 photo). Album also includes a letter of concern the group received from Rosa Parks shortly after the January 1995 Hanshin Earthquake (published in Japanese); two letters written by Fujiko Yasuda, Leader of the Young Women's Division in Suma-ku, Kobe, expressing gratitude to Rosa Parks for her letter and describing activities following the disaster.

Created / Published

  • [1995]

Headings

  • -  Parks, Rosa,--1913-2005--Commemoration--Japan
  • -  Sōka Gakkai--1990-2000
  • -  Earthquakes--Japan--Hanshin Region--1990-2000

Format Headings

  • Clippings--1990-2000.
  • Group portraits--1990-2000.
  • Photographic prints--Color--1990-2000.
  • Portrait photographs--1990-2000.
  • Presentation albums.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--Color--1990-2000
  • Portrait photographs--1990-2000
  • Group portraits--1990-2000
  • Presentation albums
  • Clippings--1990-2000

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
  • -  Gift; Howard Buffett; 2016; (PR 13 CN 2016:106)
  • -  Former call no.: D070, Album no. 11

Medium

  • 1 album : 8 color photographs with letters, clippings, photomechanical prints ; album 23 x 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 15057 (G) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015651338

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-49376 (digital file from original item)

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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Rosa Parks Collection Items Housed in the Prints and Photographs Division

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For information about reproducing, publishing, and citing visual material in this collection that is housed in the Prints and Photographs Division, as well as access to the original visual items, see: Rosa Parks Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information

  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For general information see "Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers...," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/689_park.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-49376 (digital file from original item)
  • Call Number: LOT 15057 (G) [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: Use digital image. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information, see https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html

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Chicago citation style:

Album given to Rosa Parks from members of the Soka Gakkai Young Women's Division, after the Hanshin earthquake, Japan. Japan Hanshin Region, 1995. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015651338/.

APA citation style:

(1995) Album given to Rosa Parks from members of the Soka Gakkai Young Women's Division, after the Hanshin earthquake, Japan. Japan Hanshin Region, 1995. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015651338/.

MLA citation style:

Album given to Rosa Parks from members of the Soka Gakkai Young Women's Division, after the Hanshin earthquake, Japan. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2015651338/>.