Historical Portrait
Imoto Family
Archive record
1918 historical portrait of the Imoto family including Yaohachi Imoto, Sami Imoto, Yoshi Imoto and Ayako Imoto Yoshida. Public domain photograph from archives.
About this photograph
The archive's caption names four members of the Imoto family photographed in 1918: Yaohachi Imoto, Sami Imoto, Yoshi Imoto and Ayako Imoto Yoshida. The photographer is not identified.
The photograph is held by the Internet Archive through California Revealed, a statewide digitisation programme. Material reaching the archive that way comes from many local institutions across California, so the shared source tag indicates where the image was digitised rather than necessarily where it was taken.
The record comes from Tulare County Library's holdings. Tulare County sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a farming region settled heavily during the later nineteenth century and dependent on irrigated agriculture. The county library holds a large local history photograph collection, and its subjects are largely ordinary residents, families, schools and businesses rather than public figures.
The date places this portrait near the end of a great wave of immigration that brought some twenty million people to the United States between roughly 1880 and 1920. Studio portraits often bracketed that journey, made at home to leave with relatives or made soon after arrival and posted back as evidence of having got there and found work.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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