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Studio portrait in Japanese national dress

Details:

Title

Studio portrait in Japanese national dress,

Photo number

PH0096/0017,

Collection

Fay Kilgariff Collection, PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

1919,

Description

Japanese woman in Japanese dress Captioned "Mrs Theresa Murakami Died Darwin 1981, born Cossack WA 22.8.1897". Shigeno (Theresa) Murata, who after 1920, became the wife of Yasukichi Murakami.,

Notes

Studio portrait in Japanese national dress of the young Shigeno (Theresa) Murata, possibly taken by Broome photographer Yasukichi Murakami who in 1920 became her husband. Shigeno was born in Western Australia, interned during the War years with her family, where her husband died of heart failure in 1944. Shigeno returned to Darwin in 1957 where she died on 25 April 1981.,

Language

English,

Subject

families,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pdm,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/4204,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/308659