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A mechanical harvester picks cotton in a field in Tulare County in the 1940s..

This is a San Joaquin Valley cotton field in Tulare County, CA, ready to be harvested. In the 1940s, cotton still was hand picked in most fields.

Mother and daughter weigh in as their cotton sacks are weighed in a Tulare county field, in the 1940s.

This man is disking the cover crop in an olive grove at the Harold Shawl Ranch near Woodlake, CA.

This ranch scene shows rake wheels for hay rakes in field in Visalia, CA.

This is the Pogue store in Lemon Cove, Tulare County, CA, as it appeared in 1906. At the left counter is Frank McGee. At right, front, is Aubrey Moffett. At the right rear is store owner Tom Pogue.

White Horse Cavalry.

Mary and Harriett Curtis pose with a friend in a citrus grove on the Cototn Woods Ranch, Tulare County, CA, in the late 1800s.

Men with horses and wagons pose for the camera near Naranjo and Venice Hill, east of Visalia, CA in 1907.

Wilson Hunt crossed the plains with John Fremont. He was one of the organizers of the County of Tulare in 1852 and was a member of the first jury, serving for "the Wood trial."