George Masa Collection, 1910-1930

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George Masa Collection, 1910-1930

1910-1930

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Photographs from the 1910s and 1920s of the Great Smoky Mountains scenery and people in the region, taken by George Masa and associates.

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Western Carolina University, Hunter Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11648604

Western Carolina University, Hunter Library

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Masa, George, 1881-1933

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George Masa was born in Japan in 1881. There is little information about George Masa's life prior to his arrival in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1915. It is known that he was a native of Japan and had been a mining engineer student prior to his immigration. After Masa came to the United States, he Americanized his name -- Masabara Izuka -- to George Masa. In Asheville he found work as a valet at the Grove Park Inn. Later he opened a photographic studio, the Asheville Photo Service. Masa w...