| description | The black and white image shows a group of students and a few teachers in front of a brick building with a doorway and screened windows. The students are all wearing coats and holding white diplomas with ribbons up in front of them. Writing on the top of the photograph states, 'Powell St. United Church Kindergarten Graduates, Jan 30, 1931) - the photograph is of Powell St. United Church Kindergarten graduates, and was taken on January 30th, 1931. During the Depression years (early 1930s), there were two starting dates for grade one public school - September and February, because there were few children born in those depression years. Many of the students have been identified.
First row, seated, left to right: Bessie (Miyake) Ishii, Takeru Araki, Natsuko (Hatanaka) Higashi, unidentified, Tomitaka Matsui, Yoshiko (Mitsuki) Noguchi, Hope Handa, Claire Taeko (Sano) Nakamura, and unidentified.
Second row, left to right: Yumiko (Suga) Nishizaki, unidentified, (?) Miyazaki, unidentified, Henry Shoji, Minoru Matsui, Tokiko (Hashimoto) Matsubayashi, unidentified, Sumi (Matsugu) Kai, and Joe Sato.
Third row, left to right: Katsumi Takimoto, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Mariko Nozuye, Tosh Hashimoto, unidentified, Maude (Miyako Okumura) Tani, Kuni (Harada) Yamazaki, and Masumi Sagara.
None of the individuals in the final row have been identified. |