Postcard view of Dinuba, circa 1910.

Lindsay's Southern Pacific Railroad depot, circa 1912.    Photo by Lindley Eddy.

Photo postcard view of Visalia, looking south from near the intersection of Court St. and Center Ave.  Circa 1908.
The small cupola tower, at the center right of this image,  was at the NW corner of Court and Main Streets (Where Starbucks is now).   On the NE corner of Court & Main is the Palace Hotel Building.   The Palace was built in 1876 and is still standing.    The structure at the middle foreground is the annex (or extension) built on to the hotel in 1886.   This annex connected to the Palace Hotel via a second floor covered bridge, across the alley.    If you look closely at the image you can see a little bit of the top of this bridge.   The annex was torn-down after a 1965 fire.

Photo postcard image of Visalia's Main Street during the 1908 July 4th parade.
The two story building at the right & center is the First National Bank Building, which was located on the SW corner of Main & Court St.     The person who sent this postcard wrote:  "This is a picture taken last Forth of July.   The band you see there is the Visalia Band."

Another postcard image of Visalia's  1908 4th of July parade.
I wonder what the nearest float is suppose to represent?     Perhap a giant sugar beet?   Visalia did have a large beet sugar factory at this time.

Photograph by Howard Clinton Tibbitts,  circa 1910.   This is from a series of photos he shot in California.    Tibbitts describes this image as "Stacking Alfalfa - Visalia - 200 tons".    Note the two  hay derricks in the image.     These horse-powered derricks used a system of ropes and pulleys which allowed the formation of large haystacks like this.

Another H.C. Tibbitts photo, circa 1910.   Tibbitts describes this image as  "Dairy Barns and Silos, Visalia".
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