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A dray-load of produce for the Pohlman Bros. produce store.

An early automobile: an E M F (Studebaker), 1911 model. Jay G. Brown driving. The ladies with him are Miss Cordie B. Cook in the front seat and in the back are Mrs. Ruby Anderson and his mother, Mrs. Ruby Gibbons Brown. The occasion was the…

The cutting of the rope across the extended main street as part of highway 65 by State Highway Official Kelley, while Joan Berry and Betty Jones hold the rope.

Porterville dedicated with ceremony the extension of Main Street north of Morton as part of Highway 65.

The later Southern Pacific passenger station north of Putnam.

A passenger train at the Porterville Southern Pacific Railroad Station, south of Olive Street, at the arrival of a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce delegation.

Chinese laborers resting beside the Southern Pacific work train as tracks were being laid for the east-side line in 1887 and 1888

The Woodmen of the World. Porterville Drill Team. From left, back row: George Harp, Ed Dorsey, Ira Oldfield, Charles Drear, Eschol Hammond, Jake Gilliam, Lum Oldham, and Bill Bennett. Front row: Charles Berry, Bill Schortman, Bob Higgings, Roy…

Porterville Odd Fellows Lodge-waiters at an oyster banquet, From left standing: Will Burford, Karl Bergloff, and Swan Baker. Sitting: Tom Howeth, John James, and Hugh Templeton.

Setting out in a stage-coach, for an outing in the mountains for Will Thomson's bachelor party. From left (not counting the hostler at the horse's head) : George Murry, Gerald Lumley, Charles Traeger, Dr. Hatcher, John Hewey, J. H. Williams, Dave…