Indoor Group Portrait Around a Table; Tashme, BC

Indoor Group Portrait Around a Table; Tashme, BC

Description

Title Proper Indoor Group Portrait Around a Table; Tashme, BC
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This image depicts ten women gathered around a table. From the back to the front on the left hand side of the photograph are: Tahara, Tomihiro, Taguchi, Hatsua, Iida, and Okubo. From the back to front on the right hand side of the photograph are: Takashima, Ueda, Tahara, and Kawata. On the left of the photo are the women, wearing dresses; on the right side of the photo are young girls, wearing dresses and bows. On the table is laid out covered dishes of food, and teacups placed upside down.
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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Indoor Group Portrait Around a Table; Tashme, BC
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