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At the granite quarry northeast of Porterville. Part of the quarry and the derricks, the buildings for stone-cutting and for the air-compressing power plant.

The railroad loading station called Hilo for the first Porterville magnesite mine, built by J. Bither in 1898. Its kiln was the first one used by W.P. Bartlett, the ore being flumed into the top from Sunnyside Avenue. One tank was for water and the…

William Pitt Bartlett (1855-1929), at the Bartlett summer home Tumbling waters above California Hot Springs.

People on the porch of the Arlington Hotel. From left John W. Loyd, W.P. Bartlett, David W. Lindsay, Mrs. D.W. Lindsay and child, Mrs. England, Will Loyd, and Minnie Loyd. The Loyds were the proprietors of the hotel.

Anna Laumeister Bartlett, wife of Wililam Pitt Bratlett

Mrs. Mary Haskell (1848-1950), California pioneer of 1872. Her son Frank Haskell is on the right holding her great-grandchild, her grandson Alfred Haskell is on her left.

Mrs. Myra Becker-Shuey began teaching in Tulare County about 1873.

Mattie Rose Clarke (1857-1951) Porterville pioneer woman

Porterville High School girls march in the 1920 campaign for votes for the bond issue for a new high school.

Rural schools came to see the Liberty Bell on its tour during World War I to encourage the sale of "War-saving Stamps" and United States bonds.