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Early grain harvesting required many horses, even with a combine header and thresher.

A cotton picking machine on the Ed Burns ranch.

Hand picking cotton in the Porterville area.

Women working in the cannery.

Porterville Cannery on South E Street.

A dray-load of produce for the Pohlman Bros. produce store.

An early automobile: an E M F (Studebaker), 1911 model. Jay G. Brown driving. The ladies with him are Miss Cordie B. Cook in the front seat and in the back are Mrs. Ruby Anderson and his mother, Mrs. Ruby Gibbons Brown. The occasion was the…

The cutting of the rope across the extended main street as part of highway 65 by State Highway Official Kelley, while Joan Berry and Betty Jones hold the rope.

Porterville dedicated with ceremony the extension of Main Street north of Morton as part of Highway 65.

The later Southern Pacific passenger station north of Putnam.