Historical Portrait
Shades of Whittier - Family Portrait
Archive record
Public-domain 1929 family portrait of Kiyoshi and Hide Shinoda with their daughter Grace in Whittier, California. Historical Japanese-American family photograph.
About this photograph
The archive record identifies this as a family portrait of Kiyoshi and Hide Shinoda with their daughter Grace, photographed in Whittier, California in June 1929. The photographer is not recorded.
By 1929, the great wave of immigration that brought roughly 20 million people to the United States between 1880 and 1920 had ended. Studio portraits often served two purposes during that era: made at home to leave with relatives, or made after arrival and sent back as evidence of having reached the destination and found work.
The photograph comes to the archive through California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises material from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. Items tagged with this source come from many separate local institutions across the state, so the tag indicates where the photograph was digitised rather than where it was taken.
The record provides no further details about the Shinoda family, their background, or the circumstances of the portrait.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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