Historical Portrait
Girl on Bridge, California Hot Springs, California
Archive record
A young girl poses with a bouquet of ferns on a rough-hewn log bridge at California Hot Springs, Tulare County, California in 1914. Public-domain historical photograph.
About this photograph
A young girl stands on a rough-hewn log bridge holding a bouquet of ferns at California Hot Springs in Tulare County. The photograph was taken in 1914, though the date has been catalogued with some uncertainty. The photographer is not identified.
California Hot Springs is located in Tulare County, which sits in California's San Joaquin Valley. The region saw heavy settlement in the later nineteenth century and developed as a farming area dependent on irrigated agriculture.
This photograph comes from the Tulare County Library's local history collection. That collection focuses largely on ordinary residents, families, schools and businesses rather than public figures, reflecting everyday life in the county during the period when these images were made.
The photograph reached this archive through California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises materials held by libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across California and makes them publicly available.
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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