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Yamato Colony - Images of Yamato Colony from 1906 through 1950.

Yamato Colony was a farming community in South Florida founded by Japanese immigrant Jo Sakai in 1905.

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Tamotsu (Tom) Kobayashi in army uniform: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1950)
Tamotsu (Tom) Kobayashi in army uniform: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1950)

Image Number: N044913

Last home of H.T. Kamiya: Yamato, Florida (1939)
Last home of H.T. Kamiya: Yamato, Florida (1939)

Image Number: N044921

Kobayashi family portrait (ca.1926)
Kobayashi family portrait (ca.1926)

Image Number: PR13761

L-R: Hideo, Umeko, Theodore, Tomiko.

Last class at Yamato schoolhouse (between 1921 and 1922)
Last class at Yamato schoolhouse (between 1921 and 1922)

Image Number: PR13763

Marjorie Smith and Masa Kamiya: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1921)
Marjorie Smith and Masa Kamiya: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1921)

Image Number: N044919

Kobayashi family having Sunday dinner: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)
Kobayashi family having Sunday dinner: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)

Image Number: N044915

Rokuo Kamiya holding a box camera: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)
Rokuo Kamiya holding a box camera: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)

Image Number: N044912

Four boys from Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)
Four boys from Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)

Image Number: N044910

L-R: Frank Kamiya, Walter Smith, Rokuo Kamiya, and Harry Smith.

Kazuo and Masuko Kamiya as children: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)
Kazuo and Masuko Kamiya as children: Yamato, Florida (ca. 1920)

Image Number: N044909

Kobayashi farm buildings: Yamato, Florida (1920)
Kobayashi farm buildings: Yamato, Florida (1920)

Image Number: N044922

Showing tool shed, out house, storage shed, and mule stable.

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