Collection of Tulare County Local History Photographs, circa 1860-1990

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Summary

Title:
Collection of Tulare County local history photographs
Dates:
circa 1860-1990
Creators:
Tulare County Library (Visalia, Calif.)
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.
Extent:
Approximately 1,600 items
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

Collection of Tulare County Local History Photographs. Tulare County Library, Visalia, CA 93291-4993.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Processing information:

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).

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Date Prepared:
© 2011
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid created by California Digital Library. Date of source: July 25, 2011.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Preferred citation:

Collection of Tulare County Local History Photographs. Tulare County Library, Visalia, CA 93291-4993.

Location of this collection:
200 W. Oak Avenue
Visalia, CA 93291-4993, US
Contact:
(559) 713-2727
questions@tularecountylibrary.org
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