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Oklahoma City library asks for help identifying portraits

Teizo Yamagishi poses with one of the mystery portraits.
Vicki Shigekuni Wong
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Metropolitan Public Library System
Teizo Yamagishi poses with one of the mystery portraits.

The Metro Library in Oklahoma City is hoping to solve a mystery. Recently family of late Oklahoma City artist Teizo Yamagishi contacted the library system about some portraits discovered in storage. Listen above for an audio story.

Before joining Public Radio Tulsa, Elizabeth Caldwell was a freelance reporter and a teacher. She holds a master's from Hollins University. Her audio work has appeared at KCRW, CBC's The World This Weekend, and The Missouri Review. She is a south Florida native and a proud veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, having served aboard the icebreaker USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10).