Below are three photo postcards of a family farm, each with the inscription "Venice Hill, Calif.  1913".      Venice Hill (or Hills)  is just SE of Ivanhoe,  not far from the Charter Oak.

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This is Visalia Union High School's lightweight football team, from the Fall season of 1924.
They are standing in front of the old gym.    This building was declared unsafe during the 1966-67 school year, and was later torn down.  By that time, the gym was part of Redwood High School.    I've been able to identify a few of the men in this photograph:     Back row center is the coach George L. Righter.     Second row, to the far right is Irwin Boone.      A couple possibles:  Front row, second from the right appears to be Clarence Jones;   Front row, second from the left appears to be Emmet Paregien

A small carte de visite  portrait by the Visalia studio of   E. M. Davidson, circa 1887.

Photo postcard by John Bowers of Long Beach,  showing Lindsay's packinghouse area; circa 1910.   To the right side of the image is Lindsay's ice-house.  Center-right, in the distance,  is the Lindsay railroad depot.

Postcard image of the First Christian Church of Dinuba, circa 1907.
According to Dinuba historian Ron Dial, this church was moved from Monson to Dinuba in 1905.   (Monson is about 3.5 miles SE of Dinuba.)

Postcard image, circa 1912, of the Tulare mansion often referred to as The Oaks.

According to local historian, Derryl A. Dumermuth,   it was built before 1910 by P. J. S. Montgomery.    Mr. Montgomery was the manager of the Paige & Morton Ranch.    Hulett Merritt acquired the property in the early 1920s.    The mansion was torn down in 1959.

The Baptist Church of Tulare.  Located on the NW corner of  King Ave. and M St.   Circa 1912.

Photo postcard of the Congregational Church of Tulare, circa 1912.  

Postcard image of the Christian Church of Tulare,  circa 1910.    Located at the NE corner of Tulare Ave and G St.    This church building still stands at that location, though the structure has been heavily modified.     Local historian, Derryl A. Dumermuth,  wrote that this church was built in 1887 and that the sanctuary is the oldest continuously operating church building in Tulare.

Postcard image of the End of the Trail  in Mooney Grove Park , circa 1920.     It was originally exhibited at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition of San Francisco.     The statue was purchased by Tulare County in 1919 and placed in Mooney Grove. 

   The sculptor was James Earle Fraser.

In 1968  the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, of Oklahoma City,  acquired this plaster statue.     Soon after, a bronze cast  of the plaster statue was made for Mooney Grove.

Photo postcard image of The Pioneer  statue in Mooney Grove, from 1921.    Like the End of The Trail,  it was first exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition of San Francisco, in 1915.   Soon after the exposition, it was purchased for Mooney Grove.    It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The statue was a plaster type  with some internal framing.    After decades of exposure to the elements, it toppled over and was destroyed after a 1980 earthquake.    The sculpture was Solon Borglum.