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The Carnegie-donated Porterville, CA, free library end view is shown in this 1908 photo. (Photo courtesy of Porterville Library)

Porterville Free Library. This was a Carnegie funded Library.This building was torn down in 1949 because the foundation was unstable. The library was on the southwest corner of Main Street and Thurman Street.

Opening day of the new Porter Theater

Porter Theater on Mill Street one block east of Main Street in Porterville, California.

The beginning of the Block of Business Houses on the west side of Main Street between Mill and Oak.

Porter Putnam Store. The people in the doorway of the upper story is Mrs. Putnam and their younger son Frank.

Porterville Bicyclists in front of Schortman Cyclery.
From the left Walter Mullins, Louis Litts, Ray Carlisle, Oscar Betts, L.N. Carpenter, Dude Tj
homas, Fred Saak, Clarence Rake, Guy Litts, Cleve Udell, Miller, Carl Weisenberger, Homer Huddle…

Gaited horses of J. H. Williams and Dr. Hardeman at the State Fair at Sacramento. Riders from left Chas. Hardeman; Jack Callison, groom; Mrs. Ben Trefry, who often rode sow horses; and trainer Anderson.

Shown here is the Poplar Branch of the Tulare County Library System, in Poplar, CA.