A Curtis Robin Challenger landed in Monache Meadow (14 miles south of Mount. Whitney) in 1930. This was one of two sites proposed as a High Sierra landing field. Sol Sweet of Visalia, CA, was the pilot.
Left to right, Frank, Johnny and Henry Bryant pose next to a Curtis biplane. This was the first plane to fly in Tulare County, CA. Frank Bryant was the pilot.
A group greets a woman as she descends from a United Airlines aircraft at the Visalia, CA, Airport. This was United Airlines' first flight into Visalia, in 1946.
Portrait of Rising Family in rural Tulare near Woodville (circa 1923). Front Left : May, Cordelia(mother), Delbert, Joseph Henry (father), Lorraine. Back row : Left- Bernadine, Sheldon, Lowell, Leona, and Lillian.