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.

Close-up:

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.   

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..."

Stagecoach in Giant Forest (Sequoia National Park), circa 1910.
Because of the rough mountain roads, horse drawn stages were commonly used in this area up to the early 1910s.    By around 1913, some of these stage companies had switched to automobile stages to bring visitors to the parks.      The photo is by Lindley Eddy. 

Photo by  Howard Clinton Tibbitts, circa 1911.   This is a scan from the glass negative.    Tibbitts listed this image as "Alfalfa Field - Visalia".

 Photo postcard image of the Porterville Citrus Booth at the 1908 Citrus Fair in Visalia.

 Postcard image of the Mt. Whitney Power Company facility near Springville, circa 1911.    This company started around 1899.    By 1914, they had five plants working along the Kaweah and Tule Rivers.   Mt. Whitney Power became part of  the Southern California Edison Company in 1920.
 Close up:

An image of  Tulare's Carnegie Library, circa 1911.   The photo is by  Howard Clinton Tibbitts.    This is a scan from the glass negative.           Built in 1905,  it served as a public library until 1963.     It was torn down in 1970.

A couple close-ups:

An old photo postcard of the Paige Store, circa 1910.
Paige was a small community about 4 miles SW of Tulare.    Paige is still listed on Google Maps, though there isn't much there anymore.     It was near the corner of Road 68 and Ave 216 (Paige Avenue).
The proprietor , W.T. Kneen, is listed in the 1910 Tulare County directory as a "postmaster and gen msde".   There are about 50 listings for the town of Paige in that directory.

Photograph by Doran Studio of Tulare.  Circa 1893.

 From a cyanotype photo postcard,  circa 1908.    This home was most likely in the Goshen area.

Photograph by the Visalia studio of E. M. Davidson. Circa 1892

Another baby photo by E. M. Davidson, circa 1892.

Photo postcard image of Visalia's 3-story Elks building, on the SW corner of Main and Locust Streets.   Image circa 1922.       Built in 1918, it was destroyed by fire in 1959.

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.

Close-up:

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.

Close-up:

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.