Luggage tag

Luggage tag

Description

Title Proper Luggage tag
Date(s) 1955
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item is a luggage tag from a ship voyage. It is rectangular, red and white and has a white string attached to the top. On the recto, there is the text “NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA”. The following fields are completed by hand in black pen, ship name: M.S. Hikawa Maru, from: Kobe port, to: Vancouver B.C. The recto has further fields to be completed by the passenger. The title reads: “N.Y.K LINE”. The fields detail the passenger and sailing dates. To summarize this information: John Eiji Tonomura traveled on the M.S. “Hikawa” Maru, in third class B (room. 329, birth 115). The ship sailed “on or about” the 28th October 1955. There is also Japanese text on this side and, at the bottom in English, “Baggage Room” likely to indicate where the luggage should go.
Name of creator
The Tonomura family created these records.
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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Luggage tag
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