A Street Portrait of David Yamaura and Tad Nagao on Hastings Street; Vancouver, BC

A Street Portrait of David Yamaura and Tad Nagao on Hastings Street; Vancouver, BC

Description

Title Proper A Street Portrait of David Yamaura and Tad Nagao on Hastings Street; Vancouver, BC
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1942
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
The image shows two men wearing suits walking down a sidewalk with neon signs visible in the background. The men are from left to right David Yamaura and Tad Nagao on "leave" from Hastings Park in August 1942. David Yamaura knew he was being sent to Slocan-Popoff, so the photographer mailed him the photos there. On the back in pen it reads, "1942 Hastings Street. David Tsutomu Yamaura - left. Tad Nagao [sic] - right". There is also a stamp that reads, "Kandid Kamera Snaps - 612 W Hastings St Vancouver, BC".
Name of creator
David Yamaura was born on Townline Road in Port Hammond BC in 1925. His immigrant father, Kinoe Yamaura, was born in Nagano-ken in Japan and his mother, Iwama (nee Iwashita), was Kinoe's second wife. Kinoe had a daughter from his first marriage, and 6 children from his second marriage. David's siblings consist of: Tom (born in 1921), Bill (born in1924), Arlene Kanaye (born in 1926), Rebecca Terumi (born in 1930), and Sumiye (Ebbesen) (born in 1932). Noboko was Kinoe's daughter from his first marriage to a Kitagawa. Kinoe worked as a night fireman at Brown's Brothers Nursery also on Townline Road. His job was to keep the furnace hot for the hot houses.
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.

Structure

Repository Nikkei National Museum
Fonds David Yamaura collection
Series Photographs

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A Street Portrait of David Yamaura and Tad Nagao on Hastings Street; Vancouver, BC
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