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The Dickey brothers operated this store in the late 1800s in Woodville, CA, west of Porterville.

This mule-driven harvester and crew were harvesting grain on the ranch owned by S. S. Cederberg in Dinuba, CA, in the late 1800s.

Steam-powered locomotives were used in the late 1800s to pull sections of log to the sawmill wherever possible in Sequoia National Park, CA.

Robert Null and his wife moved to Traver, Calif., in 1892. Traver at that time was an important grain shipping town.

A steam-powered locomotive pulls a load of fresh-cut lumber from the sawmill in Sequoia National Park, CA, in the late 1800s.

By the early 1900s, mechanical harvesting became the norm on large ranches in the Ducor area of southern Tulare County, CA.

The "old Joe Carter place" in Three Rivers, CA, later became Spots' Cider Mill and, still later, the Sequoia Cider Mill, still operational in 2002. The original road to Sequoia National Park passed in front of the site. That road became State…

This was the graduating class of 1907 at Tulare Union High School in Tulare, CA, along with the teaching staff.

The "cult of the watermelon" members in Visalia, CA, are shown enjoying the locally grown fruit in this group shot taken ca 1899. The names Overall, Slocum, and McKinney can be seen written on some of the subjects. The seated man is not clearly…

What might be a doctor's horse and buggy are parked in front of a brick building -- a medical building? -- in Visalia, CA, ca 1900.