Tuesday, November 13, 2012





Exeter, CA.  Circa 1910.  Kirk Hotel building
Photo postcard of the Kirk Hotel building, Exeter CA (circa 1910).  Most likely this card was produced by the Western Postcard Company (George Besaw, photographer).   On the back of this card someone has written: "Here Sept. 18 - 1910".



S. W. Watrous.  Visalia.  Circa 1883
 Photograph by S. W. Watrous (Stephen West Watrous), Visalia, CA.    Circa 1886.
On the back of this photo there is a little writing, it looks like:  "Weishar",  "(1886 prox)".      There was at least one Weishar family in Tulare County during this period.   This could be Mary Agnes Martin who married Robert J. Weishar,  here is their family photo taken around 1899.




Sequoia Park entrance.  Lindley Eddy. Circa 1920
A lot of photo postcards were produced of this old Sequoia National Park entrance, but this is the first one that I remember seeing with the picture taken looking downhill, i.e. from the opposite side of the entrance...  This  actually makes it a photo of the exit from Sequoia Nat. Park.
The photograph is by Lindley Eddy (circa 1920).   Eddy was the photographic concessionaire at Giant Forest, for 30 years.    
From what I've read, this particular entrance was along the old Kaweah Colony lumber mill road,  about 4 miles north-northwest of the present park entrance.   This old route is now called the Colony Mill Trail.