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Judie Imoto Brown dressed in a kimono made for her by a family friend.

Dinner meeting of the Japanese Farmers' Club in Lindsay, December 22, 1935.

The Chevrolet truck, new in 1917-1918, was still in use by Imoto farms in 1999.

A young Ken Imoto at the wheel of a tractor at Imoto Farms in Lindsay. A two story building shown in the background housed farm workers in 1955.

Shimasaki family posed with their new Chevrolet automobile in 1931. Kurazo Ideta (father is in the driver's seat. Mother Hatsu and baby Walter are in the back seat. Tom is standing (left) and Sam, Atsuko, Fred, Ira and Rinko are on the running board.

Atsuko Shimasaki was named Strathmore High School Valedictorian for her graduating class in 1940. Both her graduation photo and the certificate ae pictured here. She went on to graduate from the University of Missouri.

Atsuko Shimasaki (here in her graduation photo) graduated from the University of Missouri in 1944. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

The Shimasaki family arrived in the Jerome, Arkansas, Internment Camp in the fall of 1943.

The Jerome Relocation Center was in Denson, Arkansas. Here Fred Shimasaki and Kiyo Renze are pictured in fron the the Denson Post Office.

Ira Shimasaki taught a high school class at the Jerome Internment Camp in Arkansas. He is pictured with the class in 1943.