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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.

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…

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…

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…

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

Exterior of large store with group of men in front.

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

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,…