Dancing at Pioneer Picnic
Dance
Ventura County Pioneers
Foster Park (Ventura, Calif.)
A group dances the Virginia Reel at the Pioneer Picnic at Foster Park in 1931. Men stand in line facing women who are also in a line. A man with a violin stands close to them. The Pioneer Picnic was held for a group called the Ventura County Pioneers (those who first "settled" Ventura County).
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1931
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8.5 x 6 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
5469
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Dojo-Sukui Dancers
Takeda family
Folk dancing, Japanese
Takeda, Miyoko
Takeda, Hiroshi
Japanese American children
This photo shows young dancers performing a dojo-sukui folk dance at the Buddhist Church of Oxnard. Miyoko Takeda is at left and Hiroshi Takeda is second from the left.
Unknown
Hiroshi Takeda Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1930
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20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
27994
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Five Young Dancers at Flora Robb Dance Studio, Oxnard
African American children
Tap dancing
Tap dancers
Yolanda Verrett, Patricia Ann Holloway, Evelyn Yvonne Holloway, Lavonia Webb and Anna Fay Webb as young girls tap dancing at Flora Robb Dance Studio in Oxnard. The girls are dressed in matching leotards, tutus, tap shoes, and hair bows.
Unknown
1993
Museum of Ventura County
1959
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Black and white photograph
19.3 x 24.2 cm
English
Image
25537
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Gabriel Ruiz's Group of Original California Spanish Dancers
Ruiz, Gabriel
Dancers
Folk dancing, Spanish
Outdoor photograph of Gabriel Ruiz's group of Original Spanish Dancers in action on the dance floor. There are approximately fifteen to twenty figures in the picture with a fountain and Spanish style building in the background with various trees and grass. The dancers in the back row are: [dancer unidentified], Ruth Ruiz, Flora Holy, Marv L. Thomas, Gabriel Ruiz, [dancer unidentified], Cladina Avila Sepulveda. The dancers in the front row are: Sandie Sandoval, Lucy Ruiz, Juanita Avila Palomares, Delores Malin Luck, Harold Thomas.
Unknown
Alice Ruiz Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1936
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Black and white negative
English
Image
30394 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Obon Festival Committee and Dancers
Japanese Americans
Buddhist Church of Oxnard
Bon Festival (Buddhist festival)
Buddhists
This image is a group portrait of the 1934 Obon Festival Committee and festival dancers posing inside the First Buddhist Church.
Back row (l-r): M. Takeda, Mrs. Suzuki, Mrs. M. Moriwaki, Fujie Hashimoto, George Yamashita, M. Kanda, J. Kanamori, M. M. Murata, S. Sugano.
Middle row (l-r): T. Moriwaki (MC), Tadao Kanda, Shigeo Otsuki, Setsuko Sakamoto, Miyoko Takeda, Mrs. I. Takeda, Mrs. H. Otaski, Yoshie Nishimoto, Mrs. S. Kanda, Mitsue Kanda, Toshiko, Fujimoto, Mary Kanamori, Hiroshi Takeda, Fujiko Fujimoto, Mitsue Kanamori, Kimi Hashimoto, Aiko Nakai, Ayako Tagami, Hatsuye Yoshida, S Watarida, Y. Yamashita.
Front row (l-r): Reverend Taiken Masunaga, Kazuko Masunaga, Masami Moriwaki, Toriko Kanamori, Hideko Inouye, Suzie Nakai, Hisae Kanda, Yoshiko Inouye, Masaye Yoshida, Masako Moriwaki, Takeko Suzuki.
Unknown
Moriwaki Family Collection, 1994 [27425]
Kato Family Collection, 1995 [28246 NP]
Museum of Ventura County
1934-08-18
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Portrait, Group
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
27425
28246 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Rehearsal for "A Chorus Line", Buena High School
Lee, Greg
High school students
Musicals
Buena High School (Ventura, Calif.)
Buena High School rehearsal of "A Chorus Line" with drama teacher Greg Lee directing. Lee stands in front of a line of students on a stage and appears to be giving direction read from a small piece of paper he holds in one hand. Some students wear dance clothes and shoes. Star-Free Press taken 26 July 1988, published 21 Aug. 1988.
Sayer, Victoria
Ventura County Star-Free Press, 1988
Museum of Ventura County
1988-07-26
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18 x 12.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
15446
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)