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Hatsuye Hatakeda is dressed in traditional Japanese costume and is holding paper lotus flowers. Hatsuye is Jun Hatakeda's sister.

Harakeda family picnics with their children in the Tulare County foothills. Also pictured is a early 1920s automobile.

Jun Hatakeda's sister, Hatsuye, with her aunt in a photo taken in Japan in the early 20th century. Both are in traditional dress.

Truck with trailor loads of concrete pipe turning onto East Center Street from North Garden Street in Visalia. Building on left is the H. Sumida store. Building on the right houses the Visalia Restaurant (later the site of the Ford dealershipe). The…

Staff of Sumida Drug Store that was located on the northwest corner of Garden and Center Streets, Visalia, California. Pharmicist Roy Sumida is pictured at right.

Wake family in 1997. All eight children of Hisayo and Yempei Wake were still living. Bill (age 87) and Mary Wake are pictured in the center of the group. (Photo was taken in the Pine United Methodist Church in San Francisco.)

Yempei and Hisayo Wake and their children posed for a formal portrait in 1928 or 1929. Pictured, left to right are (top row) Alice, Bill and May; (bottom row) Florence, Yempei, Lillian, Hisayo, Betty, Edna and Lloyd. The family lived near Reedley.

Wake family at Wawona, 1927. The family car transported the entire family (eight children and parents) and the camping equipment and food.

Photo 1: Wake family poses in front of their house on their farm near Reedley. Pictured in top row are (left to right) Bill, Hisayo (mother) and Edna. Yempei is in middle row. Alice, Florence, Lloyd and May are in the bottom row. Photo 2 shows…

Bill Wake (age 20) in front of the family home. The farm was located on Parlier Ave. east of Buttonwillow near Reedley. He is pulling blocks of wood in his wagon.