Historical Portrait
Yosh Imoto
Archive record
Historical portrait of Yosh Imoto, who worked as a lifeguard at Bass Lake in 1930. Public-domain photograph from California archive collection.
About this photograph
Yosh Imoto worked as a lifeguard at Bass Lake in 1930, the year this portrait was made. The photographer is not identified.
Bass Lake is not further described in the archive's record.
The photograph comes from the Tulare County Library's local history collection. Tulare County sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a farming region that grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century on irrigated agriculture. The library's photograph collection documents ordinary residents, families, schools and businesses rather than public figures.
The image was digitised through California Revealed, a statewide programme that makes material from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies publicly available online.
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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