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Clinton T. Brown (left) and Demming Gibbons (center) operated this sheep camp in the Springville, CA, area in 1885. The man at right is unidentified.

This was the 1915 scene in front of the Visalia (CA) Creamery, located on Oak Street between Court and Church streets in that city. The creamery was the home of award-winning Golden Crown Butter.

George Stockton Berry, a resident of Tulare County, CA, was a prolific inventor of farm equipment focused on mechanization. In the late 1800s, he invented the G. S. Berry Steam Harvester.

The Visalia Saddle, purchased by stockmen throughout the United States and its territories, was first made in Visalia, CA, in 1870. Around 1900, an uncustomized version sold for anywhere from $35 to $45. A 2008 Internet page for Visalia Stock…

This south-side view of the Tulare County, CA, courthouse in Visalia, CA, was taken in 1902. The original building shown here was built in 1876, and later had east and west wings added. It was bounded by Court, Oak, Church, and Center streets.

Visalia, CA, was named for Nathaniel Vise, a Kentucky native born in 1810 who later owned a restaurant in San Francisco that featured bear meat. He became know as "the bear hunter." In 1852, he filed on a quarter acre in what now is Visalia, near…

Joe Ely, of Exeter, CA, was a member of the Yokohl ("beautiful valley") subtribe of the Yokuts Indian tribe. He was born in 1869, and died at age 42 in 1911. The Yokohls' head village was located near the river channel north of Highway 69 on what…

Yosh Imoto was a life guard at Bass Lake in 1930

The Shinoda general store in Cutler, California, in the 1930s. The original store was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt in 1919. The building, located at Road 128 and Railroad Drive, is currently occupied by La Esperanza Mexican Restaurant. The store…

Easter Sunday service at Palm Methodist Church in Dinuba, California.