Thursday, June 26, 2014

 This appears to be a photograph of Visalia High School girls' basketball team, from 1913.   Written on the back of this photo:  "Ethel LeVonne at extreme right, 1913",   and with a different pen is written:  "Ethel Smith,  Visalia, Cal.  VHS '13".   This probably refers to Ethel Levonne Smith (1895-1988).  The 1900 U.S. Census list Ethel as a resident of Orosi.  Her father,  Crosby Enoch Smith,  died in Visalia a couple of years before this photo was taken.   Could possibly be the same Ethel Smith whose photo I posted on 8/5/13,  i.e.  A photograph of her as a young girl with her two dogs.


 Photo postcard of a bird's eye view of Springville, CA.   The date of  "June 20, 1915"  is written on the back of this card.


(Added 7/9/14)  Photo postcard view of Springville, CA.   Postmarked 1911. 


Photo by Excelsior Photograph Gallery,  Tulare, CA.  Circa 1890.     Written on the back of this photograph:  "Presented to Clara by Mrs. L. Cox".     The photographer is E.A.S. Wyllie (Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie).   Wyllie later made a name for himself as a spirit photographer,  e.g.  Taking photographs of ghosts hovering around their living family members...  at least that's what he claimed to be doing (Some of these photos were exposed as frauds).