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This building, the Visalia Free Library of the 1920 and 1930s, predated by several versions the library newly remodeled in 2008. The library now is operated by the County of Tulare.

This Southern Pacific Railroad train doesn't let a little watter stop it as it visits Visalia, CA, during a flood season ca 1900.

This is the Methodist Church in Lindsay, CA. It still is in use in the 21st century.

The shade of this Valley Oak tree, east of Visalia, CA, at the base of Venice Hill, was the July 10, 1852, site of the founding of Tulare County, CA. The founding party was under the command of Major James Savage.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hagler at their 1888 marriage in Santa Rosa, CA. They settled in the Packwood District sourth of Visalia, CA, where they lived for 65 years.

The Dickey brothers operated this store in the late 1800s in Woodville, CA, west of Porterville.

This mule-driven harvester and crew were harvesting grain on the ranch owned by S. S. Cederberg in Dinuba, CA, in the late 1800s.

Steam-powered locomotives were used in the late 1800s to pull sections of log to the sawmill wherever possible in Sequoia National Park, CA.

Robert Null and his wife moved to Traver, Calif., in 1892. Traver at that time was an important grain shipping town.

A steam-powered locomotive pulls a load of fresh-cut lumber from the sawmill in Sequoia National Park, CA, in the late 1800s.