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Picnic at Chico Flat Grove about six miles east of Porterville.

A Fourth of July picnic at Hockett's Grove.

The Porterville Municipal Band.

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

Porterville band in front of the old Fire house. Putnam County was a demonstration favoring that name instead of Tulare County when Kings was made a separate county.

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

Girls from Olive Street School on a float for the American Day celebration.

Float from the American Day parade. Fred Frank is driving and Roger Garrett is riding.