Historical Portrait
Local Men, Porterville, California, 1880
Archive record
Historical portrait of three men in Porterville, California circa 1880, including Stumpy Cochran and Jim McKinney. Public domain photograph from archives.
About this photograph
The archive record identifies two of the three men as Stumpy Cochran and Jim McKinney but does not specify which is which or provide information about the third man. The photograph was taken in Porterville, a town in Tulare County.
Tulare County sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a farming region that saw heavy settlement in the later nineteenth century. The area's development relied on irrigated agriculture.
The photographer is not known. The photograph is held in the Tulare County Library's local history collection, which consists largely of ordinary residents, families, schools and businesses rather than public figures. The collection was digitised through California Revealed, a statewide programme that makes material from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies publicly available.
Nothing further is recorded about Stumpy Cochran, Jim McKinney or the circumstances of the photograph.
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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