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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.

Poetry Club members at Colorado River Internment Camp (Camp Poston). Members wrote haiku and shared their poems with other members. Bill Wake's father, Yempei Wake, is pictured in the top row, third from the right.

This class picture shows the students of Central School in Tulare County, CA. The year is unknown.

Women are shown packing grapes at the J. D. Martin Ranch on Road 172, north of Ivanhoe in Tulare County, CA, in 1953.

Visalia Union High School's football team poses in a bygone era in Visalia, CA.

A Japanese-American family picnics in a field in the foothills near Ivanhoe, CA, probably about 1932.

Young Tulare County women pose while residing in an internment camp during World War II.

Two Tulare, CA, residents pose in front of the Yow Lee & Co. store. The store featured general merchandise, as well as Chinese and Japanese fancy goods.