Outdoor Group Photograph of Women in front of a House at Tashme; Tashme, BC

Outdoor Group Photograph of Women in front of a House at Tashme; Tashme, BC

Description

Title Proper Outdoor Group Photograph of Women in front of a House at Tashme; Tashme, BC
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This image depicts a group of five women in two rows. From bottom left to upper right they are: Hawafuji, Tahara, Nishimura, Abe, and Kawata. Hawafuji is wearing a black dress with a light coloured jacket, black heels and a necklace is visible. Tahara has her hair tied back and is wearing a buttoned up dress coat over a long dress and dark shoes. Nishimura is wearing a dark dress suit with a white shirt and dark heels. Abe is wearing a buttoned up jacket. Kawata is wearing an open jacket and a white dress. They are Hawafuji, Tahara, and Nishimura are standing on a wooden path leading up to the doorway of a house. Abe and Kawata are standing on the steps in front of the door. On the right edge of the photo is a stack of wood underneath a shelf.
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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Outdoor Group Photograph of Women in front of a House at Tashme; Tashme, BC
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