This page includes articles and pictures of our historical scrapbook entitled I.I. First & Second World Conventions and Other Events 1965 – 1970

This scrapbook, the last of six in the Ellen Gordon Allen Collection, contains materials from the First and Second World Conventions of Ikebana International, held in 1965 and 1970 in Tokyo, Japan; the Fourth U.S. Ikebana International Conference, held in 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia; and other events sponsored by I. I. Chapter No. 1, Washington, D.C.  The latter includes the 1968 visit by Headmaster Houn Ohara.  Also included are photographs of Ellen Gordon Allen, accompanied by Sofu Teshigahara (Sogetsu School Founder), receiving an award from the Foreign Ministry of Japan.

This file contains all the pictures in the album in a single PDF format that you can print.  First & Second World Conventions Other Events 1965-1970

Individual pictures can be seen by accessing this album. To download a picture, select it, click on the menu represented by three vertical dots on the right-hand corner, select DOWNLOAD and save to a file on your device.

The scrapbook materials are presented in two formats.  A PDF file in text and a picture gallery where each page or two pages were captured as .jpeg files.   .tiff files also exist and may be used for future projects where high-quality pictures are needed, but these are not added to this website. If you need access to the .tiff files please contact either the historian or the web administrator.