Photo postcard image of a granite quarry that was east of Porterville, circa 1909.    According to one website,  R. Johnson of  Visalia owned the quarry around that time.    And a  1903 Visalia Delta article states that "Robert Johnson, the quarry man" was called out on business to Porterville.  There was also a Robert E. Johnston (1851-1936), who was a tombstone carver, and owned a quarry east of Porterville.  I’ve been informed that his last-name was often misspelled, so it’s quite possible that this is the same person.

 

An old photo postcard showing a peach picking crew in Visalia.    It's postmarked Oct. 26, 1909.

 

 

Photo postcard of Dinuba, circa 1916.     I believe this photo was taken from the water tower at the corner of  Tulare and I Streets, looking in a SE direction.      The large building at left center was Dinuba's old high school (at the same site as their current high school).   Their grammar school is the white two story building at the left upper-hand corner.   Some of the homes in the foreground (on I Street) are still there.

Photo postcard of Tulare's K Street, circa 1908.     I believe this is a view looking north down K, towards its intersection with Kern Ave.    Some buildings that you would normally see from this view (around 1912) are missing.  For example, the domed First National Bank of Tulare hadn't been built yet, on the NW corner of K and Kern.   A building trade journal published 6/26/1909 indicates that the bank's construction was not complete at that time.   From the style of script at the photo's bottom, this appears to be a George Besaw postcard.

Photo postcard circa 1910.   It's postmarked from "Portersville, Cal.", I can't make out the date.    It was sent by Ida E. Dunham to someone in Long Beach.     Ida Elizabeth (Goldberg) Dunham (1869-1958) appears to have lived in the Globe area (east of Porterville), around this time.    

I would assume these are her children, from L to R:  Wynn M. Dunham (1902-1918), Anna Moyer Dunham (1906-1986) and Loyal Falk Dunham (1905-1940).

Photograph from the studio of S.W. Watrous of Visalia, circa 1890.    The name "Ann Besse" is written on the back of the photograph.   Ann Besse (1829-1907) is listed in the 1900 Census as living with her daughter's family in Tipton.  The family in this photo maybe that of her daughter's (Carrie), around the circa date of 1890-91.   Their names were: Carrie Elizabeth (Besse) McDaniel (1861-1956), Robert Andrew McDaniel (1850-1925) and Robert M. McDaniel (1889-1953).

Written on the back of this old photo:  "Florence Nevora Weishar - Jan 8, 1905 - Age 2yrs 5mo 7days."
This was taken at her father's Visalia studio (Photographer Frank A. Weishar of Robinson & Weishar).

An old postcard view, looking east on Pine Street in Exeter.      The old Exeter High School building is at the end of the street.  This structure was finished by March 6, 1911.    I would guess that the image is circa 1911.    There are no cars or trucks in the photo.    Apparently, this was before Exeter's water tower was built.

An old photo postcard of Springville, postmarked 1915.    I believe this is near the present-day  corner of CA-190 and Tule River Drive, looking in an eastward direction.

An old photo postcard image of Springville, circa 1909.

A young cowboy with toy pistol.   Photo by Doran of Tulare, circa 1895.

Early photo postcard, postmarked from Orosi in 1903.    The message refers to Beulah Dye as possibly being the girl in the image.    According to census records, Beulah Flora Dye (1898-1992) was a resident of the Cutler/Orosi area into the 1920s

An old postcard, postmarked: "Portersville Cal,  Jul. 8, 1910".     A view of Porterville's  Main St., looking north.   This is back when Main Street ended at the Morton Street School.

 This photo also appears in Sarah Troop's book about Lindsay, CA.     Her book dates the photograph to 1913.   The Scouts at the back of this image are from Lindsay Troop 1.   This was the first Boy Scout troop established in the Tulare County area.

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The snapshots below are from an old photo album that identified the location and years as "Globe 1913" and "Globe 1915".     Globe is an area along the western edge of Springville.    Unfortunately, there are no names with these photos

I would guess that this is a foot bridge across the Tule River.    

This is a view looking northwest, near the present day corner of  highway 190 and Bridge Dr., in Springville.

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Below are scans of a group of glass negatives from the Visalia area.  Circa 1906.

(Many thanks to Joseph Vicenti, for these negatives)

View of a small dairy.    The words etched at the bottom of the negative say:  "Clear View Home. Cream Day. Visalia Cal".

Another view of the dairy, above.   The young woman, standing at center, appears in many of these images.

They appear to be standing in a field of sorghum.   The man here also appears in several of these images.

"We're Ready" is written at the lower corner of this negative.    Looks like the dogs are taking the horse & buggy out.

I believe the word in the lower left corner is "Companions".

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.
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