Historical Portrait
Charles Lowden Park (World War I, Tulare County)
Archive record
Historical portrait of Charles Lowden Park from Dinuba, Tulare County, California, circa 1914. Public-domain World War I era photograph from archive collection.
About this photograph
The archive record identifies this as a portrait of Charles Lowden Park from Dinuba in Tulare County, taken during the period 1914 to 1918.
Tulare County sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a farming region where irrigated agriculture became the economic mainstay. The county library maintains an extensive local history photograph collection focused on ordinary residents rather than public figures.
The United States entered the First World War in April 1917. Studios photographed enlistees in uniform before departure, often producing the only formal portrait a young man would ever have made. Many of these images were taken so families could keep a copy at home. County historical collections across the country hold thousands of such portraits.
The photograph reached this archive through California Revealed, a statewide digitisation programme that makes material from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies publicly available online.
No photographer is credited. Beyond the name and location given in the record, nothing further is documented about Charles Lowden Park himself.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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