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This Porterville, CA, City Hall was built in 1939, while the fire house adjoining it was built in 1937. The old Porterville Library, next door, was built in 1908.

This postcard was sent to Miss Burney Porter in 1910. The picture on the postcard was of the Porterville Library, a free library erected through a grant from the Carnegie Foundation. (Photo courtesy of Porterville Library).

City of Porterville, California as it was in 1905 looking southwest from the water tower on Fourth Street. The Porter Slough is in the background.

Porterville's Baseball Team of 1904

Porterville's first library opened April 6, 1908, it was made of native granite. It was partly funded by the Carnegie Funds. It was abandoned in 1947 after an earthquake retendered it unsafe.

Picture taken just south of Tulare Street looking northward on I Street (now Broadway). On the left is the 3-story Hughes block, an elaborate brick and iron structure 75 x 150 feet in size, costing $100,000. The first floor is occupied by the…

View of California Oil Field operations probably outside of Coalinga, California. Warehouses, offices, and oil derricks visible down the hill. Later, Shell Oil Company purchased California Oil Fields Ltd's property in August 1913 and began…

Portrait of W.H. Thurman, who organized the first lumber company at Soquel, and was also the first sheriff of Madera County 1893 to 1895.

Portrait of Gong Shee Choy's family taken in Bakersfield, California, in 1907. The two individuals on the left are unidentified. Next (left to right) are Shee Choy, Flora Choy, Uncle Choy, Alice Choy and Frances Choy.