Haruko Kobayakawa's Brown Autograph Album

Haruko Kobayakawa's Brown Autograph Album

Description

Title Proper Haruko Kobayakawa's Brown Autograph Album
Date(s) 1929
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
The autograph album contains bank information, autographs and messages addressed to Haruko Kobayakawa, miscellaneous writings and sketches In English and Japanese. On the first page, the text reads, "Mrs. Hauko Kobayakawa, P.O. Box 325, Courtney, BC". "Album" is imprinted in gold on the cover. The edges of the pages in the album are also gold covered. On the back of the album, a small image with a picture of a globe in a square is visible and, in the bottom right corner of the back, there is an imprinted oval shape around the imprinted text, "No. 52".
Name of creator
Mrs. Haruko Ivy Kobayakawa (nee Yokota) was born at Takeni-mura Hiroshima, Japan, March 20, 1902. In 1921, Haruko traveled to Canada to marry Masao Kobayakawa who was born in Cumberland BC March 10, 1898. The couple resided at Courtenay, BC on a farm that Masao owned.
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 selectively.

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Haruko Kobayakawa's Brown Autograph Album
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