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  • Collection: Fresno County Public Library General Photographs

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Crew pouring cement for Pine Flat Dam.

Downtown Fresno Parade
A parade (Armistice Day or 4th of July?) in what is likely Tulare Street in front of the Edgerly Block on the southeast corner of J (Fulton) and Tulare Street. The Palm Garden Bar is the background which is its second location after the first one…

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Designed by Chicago architect George W. Maher the Fresno Water Tower was inspired by Chicago Ave Water Tower. It is an example of the Romanesque revival created in the late 1800s. The tower built in 1894 with a capacity of 250,000 gallons was…

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Early Construction Progress on Pine Flat Dam.

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Devastation of a business, Coalinga T.V. Repair with living quarters above, front brick facade fallen off and half of second floor crushed down.

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Unknown man by his Hupmobile car in Eisen's Date Garden. November 24, 1910. F.T. Eisen's property and vineyard was bounded by Clovis, Belmont, Fowler Avenues and Kings Canyon Road. He was the first to cultivate wine and raisin grapes in the Valley.

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Unknown man, standing in is Hupmobile picking dates off a tree in the Eisen Date Garden.

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A farmer standing among his your grapevines with his barns behind him. It is identified as Kirby Ranch on the back.

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Group of men watching the first bucket of concrete being placed in Pine Flat Dam on November 1, 1950. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District was overseeing the project.

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The First Methodist Episcopal Church located on the southeast corner of M and Tuolumne Streets. It was a grey cement building with black roof and buff trim. There are multiple stain glass windows.
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