Historical Portrait
Price Hardware Store, Porterville, California, 1905
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Fred Price and his son Bumbled at their hardware store in Porterville, California in 1905. Historic public-domain photograph from pioneer merchant family.
About this photograph
The archive record identifies this as Fred Price and his son Bumbled at their hardware store in Porterville in 1905. The photographer is unknown.
Porterville lies in Tulare County, part of California's San Joaquin Valley. The valley saw substantial settlement in the late nineteenth century and developed as a farming region supported by irrigation.
The photograph comes from the Tulare County Library's local history collection, which documents everyday life in the area through images of residents, families, businesses and schools rather than notable public figures. It was made publicly available through California Revealed, a statewide digitisation programme that works with libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across California.
The record describes the Price family as pioneer merchants, though no further detail about the store or their business is given. Hardware stores supplied the tools, equipment and materials needed by both townspeople and the surrounding agricultural community during this period of the valley's development.
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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