Historical Portrait

Robert L. Hill, Sheriff, Tulare County, California, 1922-1934

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Campaign card for Robert L. 'Bob' Hill running for Tulare County Sheriff in 1922. Public-domain historical photograph from California archives.

About this photograph

Robert L. Hill campaigned for the office of Tulare County Sheriff in 1922. The archive notes he served in that position from 1922 to 1934, suggesting his campaign succeeded.

This campaign card survives in the collections of the Tulare County Library. Tulare County sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a farming region that grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century through irrigated agriculture. The county library maintains an extensive local history photograph collection focused on ordinary residents, families, schools and businesses rather than prominent figures.

The card reached this digital archive through California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises materials held by libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across California. Items bearing that tag come from many separate local institutions, so the designation indicates where the photograph was digitised rather than where it originated.

The photographer is not recorded. Campaign cards of this era typically carried a candidate's portrait and basic information about the office sought, serving as portable reminders distributed to voters during election seasons.

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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