Kern east from G Street 1888 Fresno Calif

Kern east from G Street 1888 Fresno Calif

Madary's Planing Mill -- Photographs.; Union Ice Company (Fresno, Calif.) -- Photographs.; Floods -- California -- Fresno County -- 1888 -- Photographs.; Fresno (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- 19th century -- Photographs.; Fresno (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Photographs.

The flooded Union Ice Company warehouse located just south of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The photographer was on G Street looking northeast towards Kern. The sign in the background says "Planing Mill", probably Madary's Planing Mill located on the corner of H Street and Kern. Floods threatened to wipe out Fresno every winter owing to its location as the sink of four creeks of Dry Creek, Red Banks, Dog Creek, and Fancher Creek.

1 Photographic print (postcard) :b&w ;9 x 14 cm.

San Joaquin Valley Library System

1888

Fresno County Public Library

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