Title
Rickshaw Rides
Description
A black and white photograph showing two American sailors touring Tokyo while riding in Japanese rickshaws (jinrikisha). The photo is from an album containing 53 photographs taken by Warren Tucker and his friends during the USS Yorktown (CV-10) crew liberty in Tokyo, Japan in September of 1945.
Caption accompanying photo: "Sailors seemed to have a monopoly on the genricashus (sp - jinrikishu). For a pack of cigarettes you cold get a two mile ride. "
Caption accompanying photo: "Sailors seemed to have a monopoly on the genricashus (sp - jinrikishu). For a pack of cigarettes you cold get a two mile ride. "
Collection
Warren Tucker Collection
Context
Warren "Bill" Tucker was a Photographers Mate in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) during World War II.
Transferred aboard the USS Yorktown in 1944 with no photography experience, Seaman Tucker was assigned to the photo lab and found he had a talent for the work. Tucker received his promotion to Photographers Mate 3/c in 1945 with most of his work documenting the final days of World War II and the beginnings of Occupied Japan.
From the Collection of Warren Tucker.
Transferred aboard the USS Yorktown in 1944 with no photography experience, Seaman Tucker was assigned to the photo lab and found he had a talent for the work. Tucker received his promotion to Photographers Mate 3/c in 1945 with most of his work documenting the final days of World War II and the beginnings of Occupied Japan.
From the Collection of Warren Tucker.
Accession #
2024.3
