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Local identifier: SFP78-001-212
Title: [Aki Hotel at 1651 Post Street at Laguna]
[1651 Post Street]
Date: [193-?]
Issuance: monographic
Collection: Shades of San Francisco
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Collection Number: SFP 78
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Shades of Western Addition, Shades of San Francisco
Donor description: Family's hotel, Aki Hotel at 1651 Post Street at Laguna. Date unknown. Not public bathhouse at bottom. Bathes were rare at this time in private residences. FBI stormed hotel on December 7, 1941 (first day of war with Japan) arresting donor's father. He was the first Japanese immigrant arrested and appeared on front page of paper (San Francisco Chronicle, December 7th or 8th 1941). FBI locked everyone inside and prevented people entering before arresting Ichiro. He was a very prominent civic leader in Japantown.
Language (code): und
LCSH Subjects: Japanese Americans--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Hotels--California--San Francisco
Local subjects: Streets--Post.
Streets--Laguna.
Hotels--Aki.
Districts--Western Addition.
Bibliographic Number: .b10435347
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:158170