Title:
Japanese expulsion from Atlin, British Columbia
Creator/Contributor:
Muirhead Brothers, creator
Abstract:
Three posed crowd portraits in the snowy streets of Atlin and at McKee Creek. Two include a sign reading : Mayor Kirkland
/ White men's rights without violence / General Ward. One view shows town in background, another shows the Kirkland Hotel.
The fourth view shows a line of Japanese men and a dog sled heading out into the snowy landscape, a rifle-bearing man behind
them.
Date:
March 22, 1902 (issued)
Subject:
n-cn-bc
Japanese -- British Columbia -- Atlin -- Photographs
Race discrimination -- British Columbia -- Atlin -- Photographs
Vigilantes -- British Columbia -- Atlin -- Photographs
Mining districts -- British Columbia -- Photographs
Atlin (B.C.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
M. Bros. phot.
Attributed to Muirhead Brothers. Printed in Negative: M. Bros. phot.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Handwritten on back of mount: Russo Japan War. (In later hand?)
Captions in negatives read: No. 1, on McKee Creek after the interview, Japs will go; No. 3, return to Atlin, crowd in good
spirits and Japs glad to leave; No. 4, parting send off to Mister Jap; No. 5, exit the disturbing element Mister Jap.
Type:
graphic
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
4 photographic prints on mounts : b&w ; image 15 x 20 cm.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2003.137--PICLOCAL
Origin:
British Columbia