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Members of Tulare County Historical Society participate in the Society's 50th anniversary celebration October 3, 1998. Left to right are: Terry Ommen, Maureen Anderson, Clara Rutherford, Julia M. Smith (designer of the Society's "Los Tulares"…

This photo shows the Giant Forest Branch, Tulare County Library System, in Sequoia National Park. Thought to have been taken about 1925, the picture shows, from left, Loring Davis of Exeter, CA; custodian Harriett Warner, a teacher at Reedley Union…

This photo shows the work room of the Tulare County Library in February, 1924, when it was located in the Masonic Building on South Church Street in Visalia, CA.

Tulare County Library was established in 1910, with headquarters in the county courthouse. As there was only one entrance available, freight was deposited at the front door. A balcony provided access to the upper stacks, the only means of…

This is the Allensworth branch of the Tulare County Library System, in Allensworth, CA.

Tulare County Library, Allensworth, Tulare County

At the Tulare County Library in Visalia, CA, sometime after 1910, the balcony containing the upper stacks measured only 6 feet 6 inches high. This view looks down on the shipping and wrapping table and on the piles of books to be sorted for…

At the Tulare County Library in Visalia, CA, sometime after 1910, the balcony containing the upper stacks was so difficult to climb to via the steep, shallow stairs that a basket and pulley were used to raise and lower books. The balcony above this…

Teachers and school children on porch of early school.