Historical Portrait
Will Putnam, Porterville, California, ca 1890
Archive record
Will Putnam, son of Porter Putnam, photographed in Porterville, California around 1890. Public-domain historical portrait from Rieman and Co. studio.
About this photograph
This photograph shows Will Putnam, identified in the archive record as the son of Porter Putnam, around 1890 in Porterville.
The image was taken at the studio of Rieman and Co., a commercial photography operation working in the area at the time.
Porterville lies in Tulare County, located in California's San Joaquin Valley. The region saw substantial settlement in the late nineteenth century and developed as a farming area sustained by irrigated agriculture. The county library maintains an extensive local history photograph collection, which accounts for the survival of images like this one depicting ordinary residents and families rather than prominent public figures.
The photograph forms part of material digitised through California Revealed, a statewide initiative that makes holdings from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies available to the public. Because the programme draws from many separate local institutions across the state, records sharing this provenance reflect where digitisation occurred rather than where the original photograph was created.
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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