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This Santa Fe Railroad trestle shows extensive damage after a 1955 flood of the Kaweah River in Tulare County, CA.

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.

Halftone: A group of people gathers around the stump of a fallen Giant Sequoia (redwood) tree.

This group of men gathered around fallen sequoia tree have estimated that the section thely are standing with contains 25,000 board feet. This photo was taken in the early 1900s.

This is downtown Orosi, CA, 1913. The general store is on the left, and the National Bank of Orosi on the right.

This is the hall of Orosi, CA, lodges and the Bump & Knott Cash Store during a flood.

This was the old Porterville, CA, city jail built in 1905. It moved to a new location in 1939.

This Porterville, CA, City Hall was built in 1939, while the fire house adjoining it was built in 1937. The old Porterville Library, next door, was built in 1908.

An unidentified group of men pose in front of a Visalia & Tulare Railroad car. The photo was taken in approximately 1896 in Tulare County, CA.

This is the wreckage of the Visalia & Tulare Railroad Company train at Caldwell's Corner, about 3 miles south of Visalia, in 1900. The accident occurred when the train ran into a cow on the tracks. The rails and rolling stock were later sold.