- AM1108-S4--
- File
- [189-?]
The album consists of twenty-five photographs of Chinese landscapes and architecture and twenty five portraits of men and women in traditional Japanese dress.
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The album consists of twenty-five photographs of Chinese landscapes and architecture and twenty five portraits of men and women in traditional Japanese dress.
Part of Joe Quan fonds
Item is an album containing photographs of the Parade of Oriental Fashions event at the 18th convention of the Canadian Food Processors Association as well as a program for the convention. The parade took place on January 22, 1965 in the Mai Tai Room of the Bayshore Inn. Photographs show female models wearing Asian dress, a fashion show and attendees.
The album also includes photographs of the Year of the Serpent Chinese New Year Festival Banquet held at the W.K. Gardens on February 26, 1965. The banquet was held in conjunction with the Spring Carnival Committee, and was sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Vancouver Visitors Bureau and the Chinese community. Included are photographs of various Vancouver pageant queens, Miss San Francisco Chinatown, Miss Chinatown USA first princess, and the crowning of a young woman with a serpent headdress and crown.
Notes at the back of the album list orders received for copies and provide some identification of those individuals appearing in the photographs.
[Full-length studio portrait of woman in formal Japanese dress]
Series consists of photographs of the Yip Sang family and friends and their activities, as well as some photographs collected by the family. Includes photographs of the Wing Sang Building, Canton Alley, the Chinese Student's Athletic Association soccer team, the Chinese Empire Reform Association, the Kuo Min Tang [Kuomintang] Chinese Nationalist League of Canada, and the opening of the Toishan (Toi Shan) District High School in Kwon Tung (Guangdong) Province, China. Photographs also relate to family events, such as weddings, Yip Sang's birthday celebrations, and Yip Sang's funeral.
[Studio portrait of three women in traditional Japanese dress holding sticks and a sword]
[Studio portrait of three women in traditional Japanese dress]
Photograph shows a topless woman sitting with a stringed instrument, a woman with a fan reclining on her side on the floor and another woman laying on the floor reading a book.
[Studio portrait of two women in traditional Japanese dress kneeling on the floor playing a game]
[Two women in formal Japanese dress kneeling on a deck]
One woman is holding what appears to be a Japanese lantern.
[Full-length studio portrait of woman in formal Japanese dress in front of mountain backdrop]
[Studio portrait of a woman in formal Japanese dress kneeling on the floor with drums]
[Studio portrait of three women in traditional Japanese dress]
Photograph shows two women sitting on a bench and a third woman standing.
[Studio portrait of two men and two women in traditional Japanese dress]
Photograph shows a man standing behind a large wooden carrying tray, another man crouching on the ground holding a pole, and two woman sitting on the floor smoking.
[Studio portrait of three women in formal Japanese dress]
Photograph shows one woman standing holding a broom, another woman standing holding a stick and a third woman kneeling on the floor holding a basket above her head.
[Studio portrait of six women in traditional Japanese dress with musical instruments and fans]
Photograph shows five women kneeling on the floor with musical instruments, including a wind instrument, drums and stringed instruments, and a woman standing above them holding fans.
[Studio portrait of a woman in formal Japanese dress holding a stringed instrument]
[Studio portrait of two women and a man in formal Japanese dress]
Photograph shows one woman standing holding a fan, another woman kneeling on the floor holding a stringed instrument, and what appears to be a man wearing a scarf around his head kneeling behind a window.
[Studio portrait of two topless women in formal Japanese dress]
Photograph shows one woman crouched in a wash barrel and another woman standing beside her with a bucket and towel.
[Studio portrait of man pulling a rickshaw carrying two young women in traditional Japanese dress]
[Studio portrait of a woman in formal Japanese dress sitting on a chair holding a fan]
The woman's robe has been hand coloured to resemble the American flag.
[Studio portrait of a man and two women in traditional Japanese dress with rickshaw]
Photograph shows a man and a woman on the ground after a rickshaw has fallen backwards. A second woman assists the first woman.
[Full-length studio portrait of a man in formal Japanese dress]
[Studio portrait of a woman in formal Japanese dress sitting in chair]
[Studio portrait of three women in formal Japanese dress]
[Studio portrait of three women in formal Japanese dress]
[Studio portrait of three young women dancing in traditional Japanese dress]
[Head and shoulders studio portrait of a woman in formal Japanese dress]
[Studio portrait of two women in formal Japanese dress]