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  • Collection: Porterville Public Library

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Main Street Porterville, California looking north from Cleveland Ave. Shows businesses, City Hall and cars.

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Bill's Service Station & Market west of Porterville near the Porter Slough half under water from the flood of November 1950.

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Migrant workers housing unit west of Porterville, California during the flood of November 1950.

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Jim Campbell inside an old Magnesite mine on Lewis Hill north of Porterville, California.

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Reverend Gilliam's house sat in the middle of the large field on the southwest corner of Olive Street and Newcomb Street. Built in 1863.

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Mr. Virgil raised mushrooms in this underground adobe house to ship throughout the San Joaquin Valley.

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The pond at Murry Park in Porterville, California.

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Seven men standing at the top of the Friant Kern Canal west of Porterville, California. This was the first Central San Joaquin Valley Water project.

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The Porterville Free Public Library built in 1906 with funds fron the Carnegie Library Foundation. The Library sat on the southwest corner of Thurman Avenue and Main Street. It was torn down in 1949.
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