Browse Items (6272 total)

This 1910 photo shows the Porterville Slough at the foot of Main Street in Porterville, CA. (Photo courtesy of Wayne White)

These families on their way for a 1911 camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains appear to be well stocked for the outing. They are headed for Mountain Home, a tiny community east of Porterville, CA. (Photo courtesy of Wilbur Bergen)

A family poses in their camp at Mountain Home, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern Tulare County, CA. (Photo courtesy of Wilbur Bergen)

A family poses in a large redwood log at Mountain Home, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern Tulare County, CA. (Photo courtesy of Wilbur Bergen)

A family stops to water their horses at Mountain Home, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern Tulare County, CA. (Photo courtesy of Wilbur Bergen)

A family poses in a large redwood log at Mountain Home, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern Tulare County, CA. (Photo courtesy of Wilbur Bergen)

Tree parts were used to augment braking ability when going downhill with wagons in 1911 when this group went camping in Mountain Home, in the Sierra Nevada mountains in eastern Tulare County, CA. (Photo courtesy of Wilbur Bergen)

This unidentified man is posing in front of a farmhouse in the area of Lindsay, CA, in 1920. (Photo courtesy of Alma Manlove)

Alma Manlove stayed in this home while she was a freshman in High School. This photo was taken in 1920. (Photo courtesy of Alma Manlove)

This photo of the "Spitler Family" taken in 1900 on a huge redwood stump was taken in the high Sierras of eastern Tulare County, CA. (Photo courtesy of Alma Manlove)