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Photographs and illustrations [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1918-1964.

Reference:

R10881-8-1-E

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3845779

Context of this record:

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Thomas K. Shoyama fonds

Early career

Photographs and illustrations
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Date(s):

1918-1964.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1329 photographs : 1002 b&w photos; 326 nitrate negatives; 1 b&w transparency.

Language of material:

English

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The sub-series consists of photographs, the bulk of which date from the 1930s and 1940s, during which Shoyama was a university student at the University of British Columbia, working at the Woodfibre company, and publishing The New Canadian. In the latter stages of the war Shoyama underwent training for the military in the S-20 Japanese language unit of the Canadian army where he was a private at JSS Ambleside Camp in West Vancouver, BC.

The photographs from this time period are mainly of friends and family, and many are not identified. However there are some good depictions of working on The New Canadian, good photographs of his friends from the Woodfibre company, and good depictions of Shoyama during his military training. In addition, there are a handful of photographs which may have been used to support articles in The New Canadian - photographs depicting life for Japanese Canadians in the interior of BC in the mid-1940s including in internment camps. Other photographs include a large black and white portrait of Shoyama's friend Shuichi (or Suichi) Kusaka, the UBC and MIT educated physicist who drowned in Princeton, NJ. There are many photographs of family and close friends, some better identified than others.

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Arrangement note:

Vol. 18 File 1 contains some photos of working at the New Canadian.

Source:

Private
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16--18;

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24;

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