An Outdoor Image of Three Young Women in White and a Boy in a Uniform; Royston, BC

An Outdoor Image of Three Young Women in White and a Boy in a Uniform; Royston, BC

Description

Title Proper An Outdoor Image of Three Young Women in White and a Boy in a Uniform; Royston, BC
Date(s) 1942
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This image consists of three women, and one boy, standing on a raised platform under a tent. The boy is standing at ease on the left edge of the photo, dressed in a uniform wearing a tall at with a toy sword at his side. The three young women are wearing whit and standing on a step above the boy. The girl on the left is wearing a white dress and sun hat, holding flowers in her left hand. The girl in the center is wearing a white dress with a cape and is also holding flowers cradled in her left arm and is standing on a step above the other two. The woman on the right is wearing a white dress with a hat and holding flowers in her left arm. Behind them is an English flag.
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 Image of Three Young Women in White and a Boy in a Uniform; Royston, BC
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