Postcard

Postcard

Description

Title Proper Postcard
Date(s) 1955
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item is a postcard from a ship voyage. The recto contains a hand-coloured photograph of a passenger ship. In the top right corner is the text: “M.S. “Hikawa Maru”, 11, 632 Gross Tons, Trans-Pacific Passenger Service, N.Y.K. Line”. There is a blue stamp on the front. There is English and Japanese text. The English text on the stamp reads “HIKAWAMARU N.Y.K. Line”. On the verso there is a stamp (blue ink) that features the front of a steamship and Japanese writing.
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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Postcard
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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.