An Outdoor Portrait of the Kawata Family Standing on the Steps of their House; Cumberland, BC

An Outdoor Portrait of the Kawata Family Standing on the Steps of their House; Cumberland, BC

Description

Title Proper An Outdoor Portrait of the Kawata Family Standing on the Steps of their House; Cumberland, BC
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1941
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
This image consists of three rows of people standing on the steps outside a house. From the front left to the back right the people shown are: Akio Kawata, Fumiko Kawata, Itoko Kawata, Sowa Kawata, Yoshitoshi Kawata, and Kinshiro Kawata. Akio is dressed in a suit with shorts, Fumiko is wearing a white dress. Behind them Itoko and Sowa are dressed in black dress suits while Yoshitoshi and Kinshiro are wearing dark suits.
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 Portrait of the Kawata Family Standing on the Steps of their House; Cumberland, BC
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