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This ancient oak tree was located in Farmersville, Tulare County, CA. Shown in this 1917 photo are Mrs. Lillian Cuda Jobe and Roy Nichols. The tree blew down July 3, 1925.

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

This was the exterior of the Orosi Branch of the Tulare County Library System, in 1923. This Carnegie library was built for a total cost of $5,250 in 1921.

Newsprint: One of the last of the ox teams to appear in the San Joaquin Valley brought a load of lumber from R. L. Hill Mills in the Sierras to Farmersville, CA, about 1906. It stopped here in front of "the old Brundage Store" in Farmersville.

This team of oxen is shown on North Court St., between Mainand Center streets, in Visalia, CA, in 1907.

This undated winter photo shows the Panorama Heights Branch of the Tulare County Library System, in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

A Fourth of July parade entry in Visalia, CA, in the 1920s makes a final check of preparations.

Young girls pull a float in a parade down Pine Street in Exeter, CA, with the message "turn your clock back tonite."

This photo shows the 4th of July parade in downtown Visalia, CA, on Main Street looking east from Court Street. The year was 1886.

These apple snitchers are shown at the Ira Blossom orchard on the South Fork in Three Rivers, CA, in 1894. Pictured, left to right on the ground, are Lizzie Alles Hicks (Mrs. A. E. Hicks, later of Visalia), Charley Blossom and his dog, Indian Scout…