An Outdoor Group Portrait; Comox, BC

An Outdoor Group Portrait; Comox, BC

Description

Title Proper An Outdoor Group Portrait; Comox, BC
Date(s) 1928
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This image depicts roughly five rows of people arranged in front of a large wooden building. The first row contained young boys seated in suits. The second row consists of a young man on the left in a cardigan with his hands behind his back, and four young women in long coats. The third row consists of a boy on the left in a three piece suit, a girl in a long coat, and a boy on the right. The fourth row consists of men standing. The fifth row consists of a woman on the left holding a baby, and two men on the right. On the left edge of the photograph is a baby boy, seated at the edge of the wood platform on which the others are arranged.
Name of creator
Fumiko Kawata was born in 1938 in Cumberland BC to parents Itoko and Yoshitoshi Kawata. Yoshitoshi's parents were Sowa & Kinshiro Kawata from Ehime prefecture. Kinshiro came to Canada as a farm labourer on the Empress of Russia Dec 19, 1922, his nearest relative at that time was Tomi Kawata of Yanazaki Mura, Nishiwa gori, Ehime Ken, Japan. Itoko and Yoshitoshi were born in Japan and remained Japanese Nationals.
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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An Outdoor Group Portrait; Comox, BC
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