Photo Replications of Takeyasu Family From Tan Album with Black Pages

Photo Replications of Takeyasu Family From Tan Album with Black Pages

Description

Title Proper Photo Replications of Takeyasu Family From Tan Album with Black Pages
Date(s) 1910–1950
General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
The file consists of one black and white contact sheet, the corresponding black and white negatives, twenty four in total, and four black and white photo reproductions. The content of the photographs pertain to the family's relocation to Alberta in 1942. Many of the photographs include scenes of farming sugar beets.
Name of creator
George Takeyasu was born in 1925 in Hiroshima, Japan. His parents, Shizuyo and Nobuich had moved to Canada in 1920, the year they had married, but later returned to Japan in 1922, the year in which Yoshiaki, George's brother was born. Two years following George's birth, the family returned to Canada and established a tailor/dry cleaning shop on Broadway, in Vancouver B.C. In 1928 Yoshiaki passed away and the family business was sold off. Nobuichi then established a chiropractic office. In 1930 Shigeto, another son, was born. Later the family moved to Ruskin, B.C. and in 1934 a daughter, Matsuko was born.
Immediate source of acquisition
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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Photo Replications of Takeyasu Family From Tan Album with Black Pages
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