Three Girls in White Dresses for a Wedding
Description
| Title Proper | Three Girls in White Dresses for a Wedding |
| Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1928 |
| General material designation |
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
Structure
| Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
| Fonds | Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection |
| Series | Photographs |
| File | Digital Images |
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Title
Three Girls in White Dresses for a Wedding
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