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Rows of hot caps protect young plants on the Mitsuyaki Uota farm near Ivanhoe, California. The photo was taken in the spring of 1939.

Mitsuno Katayama (Judy Yoshimoto's great-grandmother) is seated in the center of the group. GrandmotherTakeno is on the far right.

Red background, brand name in white letters on a blue stripe. Monk on the left side holding cantaloupe in front of a mission bell. Jul 11, 1957

Red background, brand name in white letters on a blue stripe. Monk on the left side holding cantaloupe in front of a mission bell.

Mariella Laidley, age 7, is in front row, fifth from left, wearing plaid dress. Mariella was the daughter of Bakersfield lawyer William W. Laidley and Viola Stoner Laidley. From the collection of Gaye Lenahan, daughter of Mariella Laidley.

A biographical sketch of Jessie C. Fraser.
Miss Fraser along with Clara Woodside opened the Cross Sanitarium at 1060 J Street (now Fulton) in Fresno. It was named for Dr. W.W. Cross of Fresno who had suggested the establishment.

Miss Harbour was the girls' physical education and freshman English teacher at El Granito High School in Porterville, CA, in 1918. The school's name came from its granite construction materials quarried at nearby Rocky Hill. (Photo courtesy of…

Miss Harbour Physical Education teacher 1918

Dark blue background, brand name in white script in the center. Smiling blond children are on the right and left sides.

A popular, privately-owned and operated maternity hospital, run by Minnie Freise--a World War I nurse--from 1935 to 1953; it continued as a maternity home through 1960, served as a nursing home until mid-1970s, and was re-opened as a women's and…