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  • Collection: Fresno County Public Library Postcards

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Two couples and a girl in a car posing behind the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Fountain at the intersection of McCall Avenue and Mill Street in Selma, California. The view is north looking up High steet.

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Outdoor church service in a field in Fresno, California, being conducted from the back of a mobile chapel. People are arrayed around the back of the truck both sitting on boxes and standing.

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Front view of the Fresno County Courthouse, which was completed in 1875; the county's Board of Supervisors met here for the first time on September 6 of that year. About four acres of land around the courthouse were landscaped as a park between 1878…

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Fountain erected in Fresno's Courthouse Park by Oscar J. Woodward in 1921 in memory of his deceased wife Anna Woodward. Mr. Woodward came to Fresno in 1885 from Clinton, Illinois and became one of the leading financiers of the San Joaquin Valley,…

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Officially named the General Hospital of Fresno County, built in 1903, located today at the corner of Cedar and Kings Canyon Avenue. Expanded in 1917 with enlargement of the central building and addition of four wings which extended the front of the…

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Boating on the lake at Roeding Park, the first city park in Fresno, located on the donated land from Frederick C. Roeding. Park designed by Johannes Reimas, a landscape architect from Stockton. Initial 71.76 acres were given to the city in 1903.…

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A gathering of teenagers under the trees at Roeding Park approximately 1910. The park was the first city park in Fresno, located on the donated land from Frederick C. Roeding, designed by Johannes Reimas. City zoo originated here with donated…

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Picture of a very weathered, possibly abandoned barn or stable. Advertising for Climax chewing tobacco on the front of the building. Power poles indicate possible date of the photo ca. 1920. Caption probably refers to Moses J. Church who formed the…
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