This coffee style book contains most of the photographs of Hilt contained in the display originally created by Frank Graves at the State Line Services in Hilt, California. The 160 photographs and text cover the origins of the town, including many of the people who lived and worked in Hilt.

Most of the photos were taken in the 1920‘s and 1930‘s and were extensively restored. Several other photographs were also included to complete the historical flow.

The book can be previewed and ordered HERE

In the late 1960’s, I made a color slide program of the lumber industry for an elementary school. I took these 124 photographs and added some personal comments to describe the processing of lumber from the woods to the finished lumber in Hilt, California. These photos in this coffee table style book show the town, woods, mill, and areas around Hilt. 

The book can be previewed and ordered HERE

Hilt was founded in 1903, later became owned by Fruit Growers Supply Company to make boxes as part of Sunkist Orange and ultimately sold lumber until its demise in 1974.

I have been working to digitize as much of the town photographs and records as possible and making them available to others. So far I have created two books on the town that can be previewed and ordered from a self-publishing site. The restoration project so far has spanned several years. An example of the project is shown here: restoration project web version copy.pdf.

A sample of the Hilt photographs can be seen here.

Publish date: July 12, 2009—76 pages 

size: 10” x 8”  all  photographs are color

from 35mm slides.

Publish date: April 24, 2009—44 pages 

size: 10” x 8”  - most of the photographs are black and white and completely restored