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Minnie Kinkaid as a child. She later married William Putnam the son of Royal Porter Putnam the founder of Porterville, California.

5-ton steam locomotive used in the Yellow Aster Mine in the early 1900s; gift of Big Butte Mining Co. in 1956. Photo shows locomotive sitting in museum yard at Randsburg

Group portrait of fifteen men and one cat, seated and standing beside a mine building, Harvard Mine, Jamestown, Calif.

View inside a mine shaft on the Mariposa vein. Photographic copy of a pen sketch by A. Schwartz.

Milo Schaaf

Picture of Millwood Elementary School, located at the logging camp of Millwood, Calif., and built ca. 1900. The Millwood District was created in 1898, operated sporadically, was suspended in 1924, and annexed by the Miramonte District in 1928. The…

Millerton Lake is the reservoir created by Friant Dam. The lake first stored water on February 21, 1944 and continues to provide water storage, flood control, and recreation. It can hold 520,528 acre-feet of water, has a surface area of 4,900 acres…

Picture of Millerton Elementary School, located 4 miles east of Friant road, Calif. Constructed in Western Stick architectural style. In 1907 the structure was moved from the Ferguson Ranch, east of Millerton, to this location. It was abandoned in…