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St. Anthony's Retreat, Three Rivers, Calif.
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)
Suspension Footbridge, Three Rivers, Calif.
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…
Reed Family
The Reed family is in a buggy in the back of the harvester and wagon that was hauling wheat is sacks.
Comstock Mill Lumber Hauling, Sierra Nevadas, 1890s
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)
Wheat Threshing Equipment, Orosi, Calif., 1889
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)
Threshing Wheat, Reed Ranch, Sultana, Calif., ca 1888
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)
Reed Brothers, Orosi, Calif., 1880s
The Reed brothers, shown here in an 1880s studio portrait, were (left to right) Lester, John R., and Thomas Law (T.L.). John was a wheat farmer in Orosi, CA. T.L. farmed in Reedley, with the city being named after him. Lester farmed in the area…
John R. and Mary Ann Reed, Orosi, Calif., 1910
John R. Reed and his wife, Mary Ann Reed, pose in a horse-drawn buggy in front of their home in Orosi, CA, in 1910, Reed was a wheat farmer. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)
John R. Reed Family, Orosi, Calif., Early 1900s
John R Reed and family members pose in front of the family home in Orosi, CA, in the early 1900s. Left to right are his wife Mary Ann, his sister Mame Reed in the wheelchair, and sister Adelaide Reed, mother of Munn Reed. This home burned down in…
John R. Reed, Orosi, Calif., ca 1913
John R. Reed poses in front of the family home in Orosi, CA, ca 1913. This original house on the property burned in shortly after the time of the photo.