Sunday, February 26, 2017


Photo postcard of the Townsend School, circa 1913.   Photo by Vogt.    This school was located in Elderwood,  on the east side of Millwood Drive;  a couple miles north of Woodlake.    It was later renamed the Elderwood School.
According to Marsha Ingrao's book about Woodlake:   The school was built in 1908 and would have only had two rooms at the time of this photograph.


Photo postcard of  Woodlake's  Brick Block building.   Circa 1914.   It was located at the NE corner of  Valencia and Naranjo Boulevards.     Apparently someone thought they sold good bananas there.


Postcard image of the Woodlake's Presbyterian Church under construction.   Circa 1913.


Photo postcard by Vogt.   Circa 1915.     So far,  I haven't been able to find out what exactly these gentlemen were "Stockholders" of.


Sprinville,  circa 1914.     I'm not sure what this building was.    I posted this image to a Springville facebook group.   The best clue I got from  FB  was that this structure was possibly used as an extension for the Mt. Whitney School in Springville, during the early 1920s.


Postcard image of Strathmore, circa 1913.    The two-story brick building at the left side of the image appears to be the Strathmore Block building.    This structure still stands and its appearance hasn't changed very much.    It's located on the SE corner of Bruce Drive and Orange Belt Drive.

Sunday, February 12, 2017


The studio ID printed on the back of this photo:  "Giant Forest Studio.   Lindley Eddy,  Photographer.   Ranger, Tulare Co., Cal.".        Ranger was the site of a post office, a ranger's station and Eddy's studio in Sequoia National Park.   The photo is circa 1915.
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Photo postcard circa 1910.   "F. Donley"  probably refers to Frank Donley of Dinuba.     


Photograph of a Tulare creamery by Howard Clinton Tibbitts, circa 1912.    This is a scan from the glass negative.    The sign on the building indicates that this is part of the Dairymen's Co-operative Creamery Association  (DCCA).       The DCCA was created in 1909.   It  merged with Land O'Lakes, Inc., in 1998.
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Another  Howard C. Tibbitts photo, circa 1912.   This is a scan from the glass negative.    Tibbitts  listed this image as  a "Creamery at Tulare".


Photo postcard of  Strathmore, circa 1913.