Three Girls in White Dresses for a Wedding

Three Girls in White Dresses for a Wedding

Description

Title Proper Three Girls in White Dresses for a Wedding
Date(s) 1928
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This image depicts three girls standing in front of a wooden door wearing white gowns. From the left to right are: Kimiko Ueda, Setsuko Nishimura, Shizuko Kobayashi. Kimiko and Shizuko are standing behind two basket flower arrangements. There are white ribbons in their hairs. Setsuko is standing in the middle with a boquet of flowers. The girls are standing at the end of an aisle, with potted plants on top of wooden pillars. They seem to be flower girls at a wedding.
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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Three Girls in White Dresses for a Wedding
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