titleAsahi baseball team; unknown location; July 3, 1917

 

namePhotograph

 

date1917

 

descriptionSepia toned indoor studio group photograph of eighteen young Japanese Canadians; ten are wearing Asahi baseball team uniforms; three are wearing suit jackets, collared shirts, and neck ties; three are wearing knit sweaters. One person in a baseball uniform is also wearing a catcher's padding and baseball glove. The four people seated in the front row are holding baseball bats, which are all pointed to the centre front, where a baseball and catcher's mask lay on the ground in front of a decoratively framed sign with Japanese text.

 


 

Verso is annotated in black ink with "This picture was taken on July 3rd 1917" and "E. Kitagawa" and stamped in ink with "352 Wolverleigh Boulevard; Toronto 360, Ontario".

 

part ofEd and Muriel Kitagawa Collection
number2010.30.1.5.69.a-b

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
accessOpen