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Vintie Beall and his relatives spent a lifetime telling people how to pronounce their last name.
“It’s like bell,” they’d say. “Like a church bell.” But few people remembered for very long.
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xplore history captured on film with Pueblo Libraryâs new online exhibit, âNatural Framing: The Life and Work of Frank D. Muramoto.â The exhibit is a fascinating look at the Japanese-American experience here in southern Colorado, as well as a unique display of Colorado history.
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Born in 1884 in Tsuno, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, Frank âDukeâ Denichi Muramoto arrived in San Francisco in 1903 as a first-generation immigrant. For a decade, he moved about the country working different jobs. He started as a laborer on the Union Pacific Railroad, worked beet fields in Colorado and several other jobs. The exhibition notes he even worked for architect Frank Lloyd Wright before attending a leading photography school in Illinois. Muramoto ultimately settled in Pueblo in 1912 and lived there until his passing in 1958.