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Isleton Union Oriental School's First and Kindergarten class of April 1924. Listed below are the 23 Japanese students the other students are unknown but are of Chinese and Filipino descent.
Top Row: Miss Norton
2nd Row: Seizo Oka, Kazuo Imazumi,…

The Japanese students of Isleton Union Oriental School's 2nd Grade Class from March 1925.
Top Row: Ryuichi Nakanishi, Mrs. Handley, Takashi Sawada.
2nd Row: Fumi Hashimoto, Tautomo Furukawa, Masao Fujimoto, Yutaka Nakano, Shitoshi Shimizu, Shogoro…

Miss Swift's Eighth Grade class of 1932. The girl in the first row on the far left is Kathy Lum who was the first woman to graduate from Pacific University's School of Pharmacy.

The Japanese students of Isleton Union Oriental School Fourth and Fifth Grade Classes from 1926.
Top Row: Mrs. Handley, George Yamashita, Shogoro Matsumoto, Masao Fujimoto, Takeshi Sawada, Shitoshi Shimizu, Saburo Hirose, Sakae Nakayama, Masaru…

The Isleton Grade School 7th's Grade Class from 1948-1949

The Isleton 8th Grade class of 1948. From left to right:
Top Row: David Sepulveda, Rudy Gorospe, Hiroshi Nishimura, Horace Huguley, Paul Smith, Augustine Sousa, unknown student, Charlie Chapman, Fred French, Robert Fujii, Raymond Rodriguez, and M.…

In the early 1900s many Japanese baseball teams were formed with Florin's Athletic Club being one of the first established in 1914. In 1923 an all Japanese baseball league was formed with teams from San Francisco and the central valley. One of the…

The Isleton Boy's Club from 1941. The group was sponsored by the Baptist mission from Locke. From left to right the boys are:
First Row: Dot Kim Choy, Alfred Owyoung, Don Wong, Vincent Owyoung, and Richard Jang.
Second Row: Bernard Wong, Albert…

Laborers working in the National Cannery to package up canned Asparagus in 1928.

A look at Isleton's main street after the reconstruction of it from the Memorial Day Fire. The new Fire House is on the far left with a hardware store next door. One can make out the Bing Kong Tong Building at the very end that was built soon after…