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Highway 99 in Tulare near present-day Merritt and Blackstone Streets.

Built in 1883, the French Hotel was destroyed twice by fires of the 1880s. Located in the 100 block of South J Street in Tulare, (then Front Street), only the brick facade remained after the last big fire of 1889. The French Hotel finished its days…

The Tulare Free Public Library was established as an act of the city council in 1901. The building was presented to the city by the Southern Pacific Railroad when their shops relocated to Bakersfield, California.

Unheard of in later years, this 1920 dealer in Tulare, CA, sold both Fords and Dodges.

Tulare Union High School circa 1909.

A 1920's Fresno street scene viewed from the corner of Van Ness and Tulare. To the right is the U.S. Post Office with the Patterson Block further up the street. The tall building in the background is the Bank of Italy building, constructed in 1918 at…

Tulare Street [Avenue] circa 1911.

A typed up document about the First Library in Tulare, California.