Image of Eshom Valley by photographer Howard Clinton Tibbitts,  circa 1911.    This is a scan from the glass negative.   
Tibbitts list this photo as "Ox Team at Juanita Meadows",  in his journal.    The photograph was part of the same series I posted on 12/30/2012,  i.e.  Tibbitts's  photo-shoot of a tour to the Redwood Mountain Grove via Eshom Valley.

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Photo postcard image of Tulare's Santa Fe Railroad  depot.    It's postmarked  July 22, 1910.    Photograph by "Johnson".      The depot was located near Pine Ave., between K and L Streets.

Photo of Cyprien Lamlieslan Bequette (1875-1911), circa 1887. The photographer was E.M. Davidson of Visalia.     Cyprien's father, Louis Bequette, was a rancher in the Lemon Cove area.
His grandfather (Also named Cyprien) was a Tulare County pioneer... Apparently the senior Cyprien had settled in the Farmersville area by 1855.

This, and the photo below,  are images of the J. D. Munson family of Goshen.

Here's a postcard image of James D. Munson (1856-1937)  with his son James V. Munson (1902-1984).   The backdrop behind them looks a little like the Cliff House hotel, that was near San Francisco.      

J. D.  Munson ran the Commercial Hotel & Saloon  in Goshen.

On the back of this postcard is written: "Cecile Munson & her pony Goshen. Around 1920". 

Cecile (1898-1963) was James D. Munson's daughter.

Postcard postmarked from Lindsay,   April 20, 1913.

It's addressed to Mrs. Ora Gilliland,  from W. N. Gilliland.       He writes:  "Lindsay, Calif. 4, 1913.   Dear sister Ora,   I will mail you this card.  It will give you an idea of how we cut wood in the mountains...".             The saw blade on this contraption is at the right side of this image;   it looks like two men are about to pass a piece of oak through it.   The saw appears to be powered by a  hit-and-miss engine.

A photo postcard postmarked from Sultana on 9/11/1907.      The postcard is addressed to Sherman Pennebaker  (of Visalia and Exeter)  from his sister, Cora.     It was mailed  just 5 days after the death of Cora's twin brother, Carl (both were born in 1877).

Trying to decipher the writing on the card,   I believe  it says:    "Dear Brother - I got home alright - although it was so hard to do.   It seems that the shock is so terrible, I can't hardly stand it.    I love how Fresno Papers state how Carl's photo..." (I can't make out the next section).    It ends with "Your loving sister, Cora".

From the number, age and sex of the children in the photo;  it appears this is Cora's family.   Cora apparently died in child birth in 1911.

According to one family tree, after Cora's death her husband (Hugh Clotfelter) married Carl's widow Elda Marian Upson.

I posted the wedding photo of  Sherman and Cora's older sister,   Sarah Ellen Pennebaker,  on 1/25/2018.

A photo postcard, circa 1918.     At the upper left corner someone has written: "at Andy Crouse home in Cutler".       The 1916 Tulare County voter's registation has Andrew Lewis Crouse (1862-1940) and his wife Emma (1863-1926) as residence of Cutler.      Andrew's profession is listed as "Carpenter", and they were both members of the Prohibition Party.
Looking at a genealogy site, apparently a lot of his grandchildren stayed in this area.

Image of a jackrabbit drive, circa 1893.     Photo by C. A. Myers of Visalia.

These drives could involve hundreds of people, startling the rabbits with sound and movement so that they would move towards one direction.    These drives could go for several miles or more, eventually trapping the rabbits in a fenced enclosure.    Then the rabbits were killed, normally by clubbing them to death.    The jackrabbits are still alive in this image.

These rabbits had become a real pest in the late 19th century, destroying crops.

I've read one newspaper from the period that speculated that the increase in the rabbit population may have been caused by the fairly high bounty that had been set on coyotes.      That is:    Decreasing the coyote population led to a big jump in the number of jackrabbits.

Photo postcard image of Orosi's Methodist Church.  Circa 1909.

Photo postcard of Orosi's  Presbyterian Church.  Circa 1909.

A small portrait by the studio of  S. W.  Watrous of  Visalia.    Circa 1886.

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Here are 5 photo postcards I recently purchased as a group...
I believe these are the children of Alvin Monte Hostetter (1872-1959) and his wife,  Faith Ingalls Millberry (1878-1960); of Lindsay.     If I have the correct family, then the children's names are: Margaret Ingalls Hostetter (1908-1953),  the older boy is Allison Rae Hostetter (1910-1996) and the baby is George Kirkham Hostetter (1911-1981).      There is a different family name on the back of these cards which I believe to be incorrect.   More about that below.

The writing on the back of these postcards identifies this as the "Kirkham Family. Tulare Co., CA".    Note that "Kirkham" is also George Hostetter's middle-name.
These postcards appear to have been glued onto pages, at one time.  i.e. There is a thin layer of paper attached to the back of these cards.
I suspect the writing on the back was done by someone who bought an old photo album and removed the cards to sell them (The writing is over the thin residual of paper on the back).    The person who did the writing does not appear to know the family well.    At least they didn't know who the girl was. in the image above,  They wrote  on the back of this card:   "Allison Kirkham, George Kirkham & ?. Tulare Co. CA".      Also,  I don't think I have every seen "CA" used as an abbreviation for California before 1963;  the year the postal service created two-letter state abbreviations.
My guess is that the album page itself  referred to baby George Kirkham Hostetter as simply George Kirkham, or perhaps "Hostetter" was obscured; and the seller just assumed the family name was "Kirkham".
Baby George's grandfather was also named George Kirkham Hostetter.
Interestingly, I cannot find anyone with the actual surname of "Kirkham" in the family (just the two Georges' middle-names).

This postcard is stamped on the back with:  "PHOTOGRAPH BY LINDLEY EDDY.    KAWEAH,  TULARE CO.,  CAL.     
Lindley Eddy (1872-1944)  had a summertime studio in Sequoia National Park,  from about 1910 to 1940.     During the time these images appear to have been taken, Eddy worked quite a bit out of Lemon Cove and  Lindsay,  during his off season.

This postcard also has the Lindley Eddy studio stamp.   

Here are several photographs by Howard Clinton Tibbitts, circa 1911

These images were scanned from glass negatives.

Tibbitts was a San Francisco based photographer who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad documenting landscapes, towns, agriculture, parks, and other local scenes to help promote passenger travel on the railroad.  His work was used in the railroad’s magazine SUNSET starting with the first publication in 1898.

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Tibbitts listed the above image as "Stage at Juanita Meadows" in one of his photographic journals,  and the photos below he listed as scenes from the California Grove Sequoias.   Some guild books from around 1915 (see here , here and here),   tell of  this particular stagecoach tour of  California Grove, via Juanita Meadows.  e.g.  An excerpt from The Tourist's California,  by Ruth Kendzie Wood (1914):
"...A stage leaves Lemon Cove early in the morning for Camp Juanita (18 m.) where the night is passed. To the east of the road is Sequoia National Park in the upper part of which is the famous Giant Forest. (Through this Reserve another road passes from Lemon Cove, the trail continuing north via Horse Corral.).     On the second day the stage passes through the sequoia forest called California Grove which has been open to travel only a few years and contains the most numerous assemblage of tree giants some 8000 in all, besides thousands of other evergreen trees. This is another camping rendezvous for holiday-makers between spring and autumn. At Quail Flat (13 m. beyond Juanita Meadows)..."

In this image, just below the man driving the stage are the painted letters "KRS&T.CO.".   These initials stood for the Kings River Stage & Transportation Company.   According to one of the old guide books, the KRS&T  gave tours of the California Grove area via Juanita Meadows. Within 10 years of these photos being taken this transportation company apparently replaced its horse-drawn stages with touring automobiles.

The California Grove is now called Redwood Mountain Grove (at the southern edge of  Kings Canyon National Park).
I could not find Juanita Meadows or Camp Juanita on any old or modern map.   But from the descriptions given in the old guild books listed here,  I'm pretty sure that this camp was some place just off of  Dry Creek Drive, probably south or southeast of Badger CA (For example, it might have been in the western part of  Eshom Valley). 
As of ten years ago, you could still navigate through this area of paved and dirt roads in a 2W drive car and make your way from Lemon Cove to the Redwood Mountain Grove and Quail Flat,  e.g. Travelling through  Hartland Christian Camp ,  Eshom Campground and the unpaved sections of the Whitaker Forest Road .
(Added 10/15/13)  In  Jackie Weiner's book about photographer C.C. Curtis,  it states that a place called the "Juanita Hotel" was in Eshom Valley (around 1890).

Tibbitts called this glass negative "Fallen Tree Calif Grove" in his journal.    All of the images in today's post were cataloged & numbered in fairly close sequence  in this journal, suggesting that these photographs were all taken around the same time.   I believe that this is the sequoia now referred to as  Fallen Goliath, it's on the Hart Tree Trail of the Redwood Mountain Grove. 

Close-up from above photo:

These three people are also in the photograph below.

This glass negative was listed as: "Calif Grove Sequoias".

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 (1/12/13, Update)  Here's another image from the same series.   Tibbitts also listed this one in his journal as "Calif Grove Sequoias".

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