A Group Portrait at the Launching of the "New Island" Ship at the Celtic Shipyards; Vancouver, BC

A Group Portrait at the Launching of the "New Island" Ship at the Celtic Shipyards; Vancouver, BC

Description

Title Proper A Group Portrait at the Launching of the "New Island" Ship at the Celtic Shipyards; Vancouver, BC
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1926
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
A black and white photograph mounted and framed in gray cardstock showing approximately twenty men, women and children aboard the "New Island" and an adjacent boat. Both ships are tied together and in behind is a waterfront building. Near the stern of the boat is a woman holding a small child in her lap; the woman may be Mrs Yaeno Ishikawa (nee Nishimura) with her eldest son, Seiichi (Sam) Ishikawa. Other people on the boat are most likely family member and workers from the BC Packers.
Name of creator
Tomigoro Ishikawa created these records.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized in full.

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A Group Portrait at the Launching of the "New Island" Ship at the Celtic Shipyards; Vancouver, BC
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