Fumi Tagami and Three Others Picking Sugar Beets; Shaughnessy?, AB

Fumi Tagami and Three Others Picking Sugar Beets; Shaughnessy?, AB

Description

Title Proper Fumi Tagami and Three Others Picking Sugar Beets; Shaughnessy?, AB
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
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Scope and content
An outdoor portrait of two smiling, unidentified men and two smiling women standing in a field. The two men are standing to the left of the image, whereas the women are standing on the right. The woman second from the right is identified as Fumi Tagami (nee Moriyama). She is wearing a dark coloured sweater over a collared shirt and long baggy pants. She is holding a bundle of sugar beets in her arms. The man on the far left is wearing a bowler hat, a light coloured long sleeved shirt and jeans, and he is holding a bunch of beets in his fist. The unidentified man second from the left is wearing a baseball hat, a sweater vest over a work shirt and baggy pants. He is holding something in his right hand and he is looking off into the distance. The unidentified woman on the far right is wearing a kerchief, a long sleeved button up shirt and work pants.
Name of creator
Fumiko (Fumi) Tagami created this collection. Tagami is the author of "Evacuation Experiences of the Moriyama Family" and "Rambling Reminisces of Haru Moriyama" both in 1982.
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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Fumi Tagami and Three Others Picking Sugar Beets; Shaughnessy?, AB
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