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Title: Collection of Tulare County local history photographs
Dates: circa 1860-1990
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Collector:
Tulare County Library (Visalia, Calif.)
Collection Size:
Approximately 1,600 items
Repository:
Tulare County Library
Visalia, CA 93291-4993
Abstract: Tulare County Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of Tulare County from the mid 1800s to
2000. Images document Tulare County Residents, Buildings, Homes, Libraries, Mountain Scenes, Celebrations and Activities,
Agriculture, Sequoia Natl. Park, Floods, Business and Merchants, Schools, Street scenes, Railroads, and Recreation. Of particular
interest are a group of 50 glass plate negatives taken by George David Smith, portrait photographs of local World War I soldiers,
and a group depicting various activities of the Tuberculosis and Health Assoc. of Tulare County.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Collection of Tulare County Local History Photographs. Tulare County Library, Visalia, CA 93291-4993.
These photographs were assembled from various photograph collections in the Tulare County Library's Annie R. Mitchell History
Room. They were digitized in order to provide broader access to the cultural and social history of Tulare County. Project
activities are on-going and conducted by a dedicated group of volunteers. Metadata is created and maintained in Microsoft
Access. The cataloging conforms to the CDL's Guidelines for Digital Objects specifications for descriptive and copyright metadata
(see
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/ ). For each physical item, three digital image files were created: a TIFF master, a JPEG access image, and GIF thumbnail
image. The most current collection of digital image objects are available to the public through library's website (see
http://www.tularecountylibrary.org/historyroom.html ).
Scope and Content of Collection
Tulare County Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of Tulare County from the mid 1800s to
2000. Images document Tulare County Residents, Buildings, Homes, Libraries, Mountain Scenes, Celebrations and Activities,
Agriculture, Sequoia Natl. Park, Floods, Business and Merchants, Schools, Street scenes, Railroads, and Recreation. Of particular
interest are a group of 50 glass plate negatives taken by George David Smith, portrait photographs of local World War I soldiers,
and a group depicting various activities of the Tuberculosis and Health Assoc. of Tulare County.
Items were selected from photograph collections housed in the Annie R. Mitchell History Room of the Tulare County Library
in Visalia, CA. The photograph collections from which items were selected are indexed in Microsoft Access, and are searchable
online at the Tulare County Library's web site at
http://www.tularecountylibrary.org/historyroom.html#digital . Consult the library for more information.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.
Sierra Nevada (Calif.)
Tulare County (Calif.)
Sequoia National Park (Calif.)
Visalia (Calif.)
Mooney Grove Park (Visalia, Calif.)
California Hot Springs (Calif.)
Soldiers -- California -- Tulare County.
Floods -- California -- Tulare County.
Libraries -- California -- Tulare County.
Railroads -- California -- Tulare County.
Schools -- California -- Tulare County.
Parades -- California -- Visalia.
Visalia (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Agricultural machinery -- California -- Tulare County.
Agriculture -- California -- Tulare County.
Photograph
Real photo postcard
Glass plate negative