Title: Cabinet Photograph of Japanese family in Fresno - 1920 Author: Place: Fresno, California Publisher: F.U.K. Studio Date: [c.1920] Description: Photograph, 7½x9¼ inches in 11¾x13¾" mat, of a Japanese family – six men and two women of an older and younger generation The small, tight-knit Japanese-American population of Fresno County tripled in the first decades of the 20th century as the “aliens” established farms, vineyards and orchards throughout California’s Central Valley. By 1920, near a Santa Fe Railroad stop south of the city of Fresno, an all-Japanese agricultural community of 100 families farmed 3500 acres, with grape vines and fruit trees surrounding their Buddhist Church and community center. Entire families lived and worked together to operate their farms. This picture probably depicts one such extended family which eked out a living in the 1920s - until almost all the Japanese of Fresno lost their farms during the Depression. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear at corners, a bit of finger soiling to matt, light foxing to photo margins; very good. Item number: 238219
Title: Cabinet Photograph of Japanese family in Fresno - 1920 Author: Place: Fresno, California Publisher: F.U.K. Studio Date: [c.1920] Description: Photograph, 7½x9¼ inches in 11¾x13¾" mat, of a Japanese family – six men and two women of an older and younger generation The small, tight-knit Japanese-American population of Fresno County tripled in the first decades of the 20th century as the “aliens” established farms, vineyards and orchards throughout California’s Central Valley. By 1920, near a Santa Fe Railroad stop south of the city of Fresno, an all-Japanese agricultural community of 100 families farmed 3500 acres, with grape vines and fruit trees surrounding their Buddhist Church and community center. Entire families lived and worked together to operate their farms. This picture probably depicts one such extended family which eked out a living in the 1920s - until almost all the Japanese of Fresno lost their farms during the Depression. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear at corners, a bit of finger soiling to matt, light foxing to photo margins; very good. Item number: 238219
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