Buildings, Tombstones, and People
Description
| Title Proper | Buildings, Tombstones, and People |
| Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1975 |
| General material designation |
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
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| Scope and content |
This contact sheet consists of
twelve images.
The top row has two images. The image on the left is a
building with stairs on the right side. There is also an illegible plaque on
the right side of the building. The image on the right is a building with an
eagle symbol on it.
The middle row has five images and going from
left to right; the first image is an photo of a road in a cemetery. The
second image is white, nothing can be seen. The third image is a gravestone
that reads "In loving memory/1911 Yoshiro 1930/ ... Sumiko 1932." The fourth
image is a gravestone that reads "Mother/Usa Natsumara/1874 - 1970." There
is some illegible Japanese characters on the left of the gravestone. The
fifth and last image on this row is a photo of two pillars, one on the left
and one on the right.
The third row also has five images and going
from left to right; the first image is a gravestone that reads "In memory
of/Sakamoto/1863 - Nenohachi 1927/1875 Tome - 1937." The second image is a
gravestone that reads "Kaji/Father/1898 Tokuzo 1966/Gone but not forgotten."
The third image is a building with stairs on the right and left of the
image. The fourth image is darker than the other photos and there is a
person sitting in a field. The fifth and last image on this row is a photo
of two people standing side-by-side in a field. The person on the left is
standing with a tool in hand and the person on the right is wearing a
hat. |
| Name of creator |
John Mark
Read was born on June 8, 1945 in Kelowna, British Columbia. He graduated
(from Delbrook Senior Secondary School?) and continued with his education by studying
Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He graduated from UBC in 1971
with a Bachelor of Arts. John went on to pursue a Master of Arts in the Department
of
Geography at UBC. He submitted his thesis, "The Pre-War Japanese Canadians of Maple
Ridge: Landownership and the Ken Tie," in 1975. While pursuing his Masters, John married
his wife, Karen Kiyiomi Mizuno, on July 14, 1973. John went on to work as H.Y. Louie
for
thirty years and retired in 2005.
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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 | John Mark Read Collection |
| Series | Photographs |
| File | Miscellaneous Research Photos |
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Buildings, Tombstones, and People
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