Both photographs (below) were taken by James Turner Doran of Tulare, circa 1890.

On the back of the first photo is written "George Wray" and on the second is written "Newt Wray".      Most likely these are images of George Washington Wray (1831-1908) of Tulare, and his son Newton Elmer Wray (1874-1945).

 

 

 

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Photo by A.R. Moore of  Visalia, circa 1895.    On the back is written:  "Mary Warna (possibly "Warner"),   a cousin to Caldwell family".

Children's portraits, circa 1896.      It's from Beck studio, of Visalia.    Brothers Frank and Will Beck ran this photography studio.        They also had a studio in Fresno, around 1900.  Unfortunately, no names are on the photograph.

 

 

Another Beck studio photo, circa 1896.

An old photo, I recently purchased...

The seller said this was a 1924 kindergarten class in Tulare.    Lots of names on the image, including the name of their teacher, Blanch Anderson.    Miss Anderson was mentioned in one Tulare newspaper article, from 1922, as being the kindergarten teacher at Wilson Grammar School;  so I would guess that this is an image of that school.

The names of some of the children are written on the back.     The names correspond to the numbers written on the image... "1" starting at the back row left hand side.    Some of them are just the first names, which makes them difficult to identify.

14 of the children, who have their full names written down,   I found on a genealogy website; confirming that they were born in 1918 or 1919 and that they spent at least part of their school years in the Tulare area.            Those children are:

#2 Jack Willoughby,   #5 Sheridan Harris,  #7 Hazel Christensen,  #10 Mary Silveria,   #12 James (Jimmy) Hooks,  #15 Betty Husong,  #17 Nadine Place,   #18 Frances Newman,  #19 Violet South,  #20 Louise Slaughter,   #21 Fraser Lovett,  #23 Eleanor Monroe,   #24 Dorothy Polson,  #25 Margaret Sarment.

                                                                Photo by S. W. Watrous of Visalia.

Written at the bottom of the photograph: "Michael Premo 1890".

Most likely this is Michael Fredrick Premo (1847-1917) of Tulare.

Photo by Doran of  Tulare.    Written on the back:   "Walter Premo about 1890".        

Most likely this is Walter Emile Premo (1876-1952).   He was the son of  Michael Fredrick Premo (see the previous photo).

Postcard view of Visalia's Main Street. It is postmarked 11/19/1923.

This is looking eastward down Main, just past its intersection with Church St.

The building at the far left is the Johnson Hotel.

Photo by C.A. Myers of  Visalia, circa 1895.     Written on the back:  "George Wright family Visalia".

Photo by G.A. Nelson of  Tulare, cica 1893.

Hand tinted photo by the Beck Brothers of  Visalia, circa 1897.

Photo by Powell & Myers of  Tulare, circa 1895.

Postcard view of Orosi, circa 1916

Photo By Downey's Art Studio of Tulare.  Circa 1892.

 Photo by Excelsior Photograph Gallery of  Tulare, circa 1886.   A. P. Bailey the photographer.

A  photo postcard view of Visalia's  Main Street,  looking west,   near its intersection with Garden St.  Circa  1907.

The building to the near left hand side, still stands at 309 E. Main.    It is the building where the Las Palmas  Restaurant was later located.    Just west of this was John Hyde's furniture store.        Across the street from 309 E. Main  is the Harvey House hotel.   According to Terry Ommen's blog,  the Harvey House structure was built around 1904 and it was torn down in 1971.      Down the same side of the street,  at the NW corner of Church and Main St,  is the old Bank of Visalia clock tower.   The 5 story Bank of Italy building now stands at that location (built in 1923).

 This appears to be one of George Besaw's photos,  see the Visalia Armory Building photo I posted on 7/17/2018.    Besaw's armory photo is numbered "171",  and this photo is numbered "168" (in the lower right corner).   Most likely,  Besaw took these images within days of each other.      In the image above, I can just make out a small poster for the play "Peck's Bad Boy" (as was also in the armory photo).     This would seem to indicate, that both of these photographs were taken  around the time of that play;  April 19, 1907.

Photo postcard by Beck, circa 1911.        The big building at the end of the street is the old high school, that was located in the Lincoln Oval.    This appears to be a view looking north from the 500  block of  N. Court Street.    The two-story Victorian home, at the left side of the image, still appears to be at that location.        (Many thanks to the the people at the facebook group Visalia, Gateway to the Sequoias  who pinned down the exact location of this image.)

 

From a postcard, dated 10/4/1909, Lindsay Cal.      Written on the back of the card "This is main street of Lindsay".    I assume that this is Honolulu Street.      One of the businesses here is the Lindsay Drug Co.    According to the 1910 Tulare County directory, this drug store was on Honolulu Street.

Photograph by Robinson & Churchman, circa 1900.        The style of the photograph seems later than 1900.   But apparently the partnership of  Robinson & Churchman had ended by December 1900.     The 12/21/1900 issue of the Daily Visalia  Delta newspaper,  states that the photographer S.E. Churchman had moved to Chico,  and  had opened  a studio there.   

On the back of the photo is written "Dora Garnett".     I would guess that this is Madora (Dameron) Garmett of Visalia (Married to: Marcus Garnett).  She would have been around 28 years old at the time of the photo.    They did have a daughter named Dora, but she would have only been about 6 years old at the time of this photograph.

Photo by Doran Studio of Tulare.  Circa 1910.

An old photo postcard image of the Camp Nelson Hotel, circa 1922.     It was built on the same property as  an earlier version of the hotel, this one  was constructed in 1912.
The image is by Hammond's Studio of Porterville. 

A scan from a glass negatives by Howard Clinton Tibbitts.     He was one of the early Sunset Magazine photographers.  The photo is circa 1911.      Tibbitts listed this image as "Ranch near Visalia".

A small carte de visite portrait, from the studio of A. J. Jones, "Tulare City, California".   Circa 1879. 

 Looking at old voting and census records: It appears  that the photographer Abial J. Jones  worked in Tulare and Fresno Counties from about 1870 to 1900.     Apparently, most of that time was spent in Tulare.        I was a bit surprised by the amount of time he seems to have spent in the Tulare County area...     I have only heard of a few references to A. J. Jone's photographs.

Photograph by Doran Studio of Tulare, circa 1895.

An old photo postcard view of Springville's  Soda Springs, circa 1912.

Written on the back of this postcard: "1923 - Dedication of the Harding Tree in Giant Forest, Calif.".

This sequoia is now more commonly referred to as the President tree.  

An article in the 9/7/1923 issue of  The National Lumber Bulletin states:  "Giant Redwood Dedicated to Memory of Late President  -  A permanent memorial to the late President Harding has just been contributed by California forests...  The second largest tree in the world was dedicated to his memory, August 12,  as the Warren Harding Tree.     In dedicating the giant sequoia...  Col John R. White, superintendent of Sequoia and Grant national parks, declared that..."

Photo postcard by Lindley Eddy, circa 1912.     I believe the "Kaweah Colony Canyon",  refers to the 

to the area near the the Kaweah Post Office. 

The Orosi Library was established in March 1911 in Ryan's Cyclery.    It was officially established as a Tulare County Library Branch in July, 1913.     After WWI,  a  Carnegie library was built in Orosi  and that building still serves as the county library branch for that town.

Photo postcard by Beck,  circa 1911.    This section of Tulare's  J  Street  was also known as "Front St."

Image from an old postcard.     It's postmarked "Lindsay, CAL., Nov. 14, 1907".    The person who sent the card wrote on the back: "This is a picture of orange hauling at Lindsay Cal.".

Close up:

An old photo postcard image of the Palace Hotel in Visalia,  postmarked 4/18/1909. 

Built in 1876,  this building still stands on the NE corner of Main & Court Streets.   It's the oldest commercial building still in use in Visalia and probably the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Close up:

 A close-up showing some of the signage:   There's a couple of "Palace Bar" signs,   A poster that starts "National League Base Ball Results..." (I can't read the rest of the poster),    And there's a corner street sign for Court and Main Street.

The Tulare County Courthouse,  circa 1921.     This is a view looking south down Court Street near its intersection with Oak Ave.

 photo postcard image of a parade on Dinuba's  L Street, circa 1911.    The Gustie Building  is at the left side  (It's on the corner of  L and Tulare Streets).    I'm guessing that this photograph was taken from the balcony of  Commercial Hotel.

Photo postcard, circa 1914.    The Tuesday Club was a Lindsay women's club.

Photo postcard from Tulare, circa 1918.   This building still stands on North J Street,  it's the structure which now has the old Adorh Milkmaid and Cow statue  at it's front.

Adohr Milkmaid, cow

Adohr Milkmaid, cow

Adohr Milkmaid and Cow

A small portrait by George E. Dean of Visalia, circa 1875.

Another photo by the Visalia studio of George E. Dean, circa 1875.

Photograph of Ethel Jane Fewel (1892-1959). The photo is dated April 8, 1895.     From Beck studio in Visalia.      

Ethel married Leslie Ripperdan Hamilton (of Visalia & Lindsay) in 1913, they had at least 4 children.

An old photo postcard of Tulare, circa 1907.    This is an image of K Street looking northerly,  taken between Kern and Tulare Avenues.   

The City Hall/Firehouse is at the near left side (with the small bell-tower on top).

Photograph by E.A.S. Wyllie, Tulare CA. Circa 1887.    The name "Frank Tilly" is written on the back.     So far, I haven't had any luck finding information about Mr. Tilly.

From the Tulare studio of E.A.S Wyllie. Circa 1890.  
On the back of the photo is written "Lizzie Dover".    I believe this is a photograph of  Elizabeth Dover (born 1874).   See the photograph just below...

I bought this photograph from the same person who sold me the image of  "Lizzy Dover".

It's also from  E.A.S Wyllie's Tulare studio,  circa 1890.   "Eva Dover" is written on the back of the photograph.   I believe this is Eva May Dover (born 1879), the younger sister of Elizabeth Dover.    They are the children of Jesse B. Dover and Elizabeth Keefer.
Tulare County marriage records indicate that their mother re-married a man named  Nevada M. Dobson, in 1890.  

Postcard image from Exeter.   Postmarked 12/8/1910.     In the message on the back of the card, it mentions that the First National Bank in this image (left side) was robbed in 1909.    The bank robbers used dynamite which destroyed the bank's vault.  

 Photo postcard by Hammond's Studio of Porterville, circa 1920.  An image from the granite quarry which was located about 4 miles east of Porterville.        Ina H. Stiner's book  Porterville, California: An appreciation of the past (1956),  identifies the man in this photo as Omni Koskela and the little boy as Wayne Laakso.    Many of these quarry workers were of Finnish ancestry.

 Close-up of Wayne Laakso:

 Photograph by Beck Studio of Visalia, circa 1896.

 Zante Citrus Association of Porterville.  Photograph taken circa 1912.

 Close_up:

At that time they were packing citrus under the  Hiawatha  and  Pocahontas labels.

Some of the boxes here are stamped with the Tulare County Citrus Fruit Exchange logo.