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Our Mothers' Patterns
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Bay Farm Sewing Club, Slocan, BC, 1945. Odamura Family Collection, JCNM.
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Sewing class gathering, Slocan City, BC, ca. 1943. Courtesy Chie Oya.
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Sewing class gathering, Slocan City, BC, ca. 1944. Courtesy Chie Oya.
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Portrait of the Academy of Domestic Arts at Greenwood, BC, in 1945. Courtesy Ruth Hamaguchi.
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Woman sewing in an internment camp
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Tailor cutting patterns and fabric for suits
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Kobayakawa's Sewing School, Itami City, Hyogo  Prefecture, Japan
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Instructor Haruko Kobayakawa standing at the blackboard, Kobayakawa's Sewing School, Japan
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1943 portrait of Haruko Kobayakawa with students
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Mariko Ohara posing and wearing her dress design in Japan
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Mrs. S. Tanegawa and her daughter May, at Lemon Creek internment camp
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Museum volunteer Beverly Inouye welcomes visitors to the Our Mothers' Patterns exhibition
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View of the 'Our Mothers' Patterns' exhibit at the 1996 Powell Street Festival
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Naomi Sawada installing the show at the JCNM annual general meeting.
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A visitor reading the text panel of the Our Mothers' Patterns exhibition
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Mary Ohara wearing a feather trimmed hat and 1940s burgundy afternoon dress
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The fashion show audience gathers at the entrance to the venue
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Models for the 1996 fashion show gather in a school classroom, the 'green room'
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