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This library, a gift to the community of Exeter, Calif., from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, cost $5,000 to build in 1916. It measured 28' x 50'.

Pictured here is the building constructed and used as the Farmersville, CA, school from 1873 to 1904.

In 1973, this was the Tulare County Free Public Library branch serving the community of Farmersville, CA.

This small ranch house was near Goshen in Tulare County, CA. The photo was donated by Tom Rivers.

This photo, taken on a ranch near Goshen in Tulare County, CA, shows a mixed horse and mule team hitched to a threshing machine. The photo, taken 6/22/1922, was donated by Tom Rivers.

This was the Ivanhoe Branch of the Tulare County Library, in May, 1929. It was located in the Ivanhoe Hardware Building, a general merchandise store. Ivanhoe is in Tulare County, CA.

The Ivanhoe Hardware building in Tulare County, CA, was built in 1914 by William Waddle. It began as the Venice Hill general merchandise store.

The library in Lindsay, CA, during the 1920s was located in the Women's Clubhouse, and was rented for a monthly amount of $15.00.

Postcard: This postcard, postmarked February 23, 1909 in Lindsay, CA, shows downtown Lindsay about that time.

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.