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A biographical sketch and photo of Leonard B. Cary. Leonard Cary was a California state assemblyman from the fifty-second district.

Photo of intersection of L Street and Fresno Street with the Southern Methodist Church on the corner. Mill Ditch visible on Fresno Street in front of the church. This irrigation ditch was built in 1878 by Moses J. Church to power his Champion Flour…

The Kuzo Shinoda family. Kuzo and his first wife, Hito, had four children. After her death he returned to Japan and married her sister, Sayo. They had eight children. Pictured (left to right) are: Top row: Muto Shinoda, Bobby Hanada, Akira Shinoda,…

Kuzo and Sayo Shinoda, pictured here in the early 1900s, were the maternal grandparents of Eileen Abe Lisias.

Exterior of large store with group of men in front.

Kutner-Goldstein department store on fire. People gathered in front. Firefighters putting it out.

Two boys riding on a Kutner-Goldstein delivery wagon. During the 1890s general stores and grocery stores became more numerous in Fresno. One of the better known was Kutner-Goldstein & Company whose main store was on the corner of Mariposa and H…

Picture of Kutner Colony Elementary School, located near the intersection of Highland and McKinley avenues near Clovis, Calif. Shows Mission Revival architectural elements. This stucco building, built in 1912, was the second of two school structures…

Photo is probably of (l to r) Kurazo Ideta (father), Jisaburo Shimasaki (maternal grandfather) with baby Tom Shimasaki, and mother Hatsu Shimasaki, in 1915. Jisaburo Shimasaki came from Japan because of the birth of the first child. Photo was taken…

Portrait of the Kow family, 1907, proprietors of Sun Sun Wo Co., Coulterville, Calif.; seated left to right, Moey Leong Sun, baby, and Kow Sun; Moey and baby wearing Chinese style dresses, Kow wearing dark suit.