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Victory garden.
F. F. Parker's Victory Garden during World War II.
Armistice Day parade.
The celebration of the first anniversary of Armistice Day
Bartlett Junior High School.
Entrance of Bartlett Junior High School of Porterville, erected in 1938.
Bartlett Park.
Swimming hole in the Tule River at Bartlett Park
Murry Park.
Boating in Murry Park; Miss Goldie Hallford at the center, and Mrs. Ella Hallford with oar.
Murry Park
Murry Park
Murry Park
Murry Park
Granite Quarry.
The steam-engine power plant before it was housed, and some houses for the employees.
Granite Quarry.
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.
Hilo station.
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…