A Family Portrait of Isamu, Jusuke, Sadako and Tame Ishikawa in front of their house; Port Hammond, BC

Description

Title Proper	A Family Portrait of Isamu, Jusuke, Sadako and Tame Ishikawa in front of their house; Port Hammond, BC
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized	1935
General material designation	From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content	The image shows two men in three piece suits; the older, Jusuke Ishikawa, and the younger, Isamu Ishikawa stand before stairs that lead up to a wood house. Before them are seated women; their wives. The younger woman is Sadako Ishikawa and beside her is Tame Ishikawa. Both women wear belted dresses; Sadako also wears a string of pearls and a corsage.
Name of creator	Jusuke Ishikawa was born Sept 10, 1867 in Ihonosho, Yamaguchi, Japan. He came to Canada in 1899. In 1909 he spent $75.00 on his first installment of land in Port Hammond where he had a logging crew. Eventually he cleared the land and had a strawberry farm. He married Tame Hirotsu after buying rings from Birks in 1909.
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	Ishikawa Family collection
Series	Personal photographs of the Ishikawa family

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Title

A Family Portrait of Isamu, Jusuke, Sadako and Tame Ishikawa in front of their house; Port Hammond, BC

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