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Porterville Cooperative Creamery. Man with white horse is Frank Niles. The man in the doorway wearing a vest is Joe Tetrault.

Porterville College building. The building is now used as part of Porterville High School and is their Science Department.

The Porterville Co-operative Creamery (1904-1914) located near Walnut Street between F and G streets.

Porterville's second library dedicated on March 8, 1953.

Porterville City Hall on the northwest corner of Main Street and Cleveland Avenue. Built around 1940.

The city band taken at the dedication of the city park. This was a volunteer band.

Music for Porterville. The members of the band are using a section from the Sequoia tree that furnished the exhibit for the world's Columbian Exposition as a bandstand.

Porterville Band

This band was called The High School Band, because it was organized by Frank Howard, high school teacher (1900-1902) mostly from high school boys. They met to practice at high school, but was not in the curriculum.