Photograph
Ruby Kubota
| Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan when he was 15 and settled in Metaline Falls, Washington. After working long hours in a laundry, he bought property and became a well-known resident of Metaline Falls. His daughter, Ruby, submitted many articles and letters to the local newspapers and won an 5,000 word essay contest of the American Legion on the subject of Americanism. She is a freshman journalism student at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Image ID: | 39485 |
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| Creation Date: | 05 17 1944 |
| Creator Name: | Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Arthur M. Vinje photographs and negatives, circa 1914-circa 1962 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6442.0142A |
| Original Dimensions: | 2.25 x 3.25 inches |
| One of two images. Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on May 21, 1944. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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