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North of Sultana, in Tulare County, CA, wheat was threshed and bagged in the field ca 1888. Seated on bags of wheat at the center of this photo is wheat farmer John R. Reed, flanked by his son, Lyle, and his daughter. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)

At the ranch of John R. Reed in east Orosi, CA, a 22-mule team pulls each wagon of sacked wheat, or the harvester. The photo was taken in 1889. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)

This team and wagon, operated by the John R. Reed family of Orosi, CA, hauled lumber for the Comstock Mill in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. Other farming families did the same. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)

The Reed family is in a buggy in the back of the harvester and wagon that was hauling wheat is sacks.

St. Anthony's Retreat Home above Three Rivers, CA, relies partially on water received via a flume, or trough, which carries water downhill from higher elevations. Here, Brother Didacus stands on a suspension bridge near where the flume begins on the…

St. Anthony's Retreat House is shown on the hillside I Three Rivers, CA, from the Veterans Memorial Building on California Highway 198. The retreat house is operated by Franciscan friars. (Photo courtesy of St. Anthony’s Retreat)

Father Gregory from St Anthony's Retreat House in Three Rivers, CA, is shown holding mass at Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon National Park. Father Gregory and Brother Simon, shown kneeling, are both Franciscan friars. (Photo courtesy of St. Anthony’s…