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This 1899 Oldsmobile was driven in a 1918 Porterville, CA, exhibition. At that time, there were road races on the streets of Porterville at the Armistice Day celebration each year. This photo was taken at Main and Putnam streets. (Photo courtesy…

A baker peddles his baked goods from a horse-drawn cart in Porterville, CA, in the early 1900s.

Using a pair of mules for the hardest labor, a farm family in Tulare County, CA, nurtures a young orchard ca 1900.

This was the first Congregational Church built in Porterville, CA, in the late 1800s.

A group of lumbermen and a few family members pose on what then was called the W. S. Scott Tree in Sequoia National Park (late 1800s).

Theatre Visalia was the only movie theatre in Visalia, CA, until 1920 when construction took place on the Fox Theatre.

This photo depicts a private cabin built on least federal land in Mineral King, Tulare County, CA.

Citrus City Lumber Company was a Porterville, CA, lumber retailer in the early 1900s.

This aerial view of Exeter, CA, taken in 1905, looks east toward snow-capped High Sierras.