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Friant Dam pictured here was classified as ready for service in November 1944. In July 1945 Peter Kiewit & Sons Company of Omaha, Nebraska was awarded the contract to build the Friant-Kern Canal. The Friant-Kern Canal outlet works are located on the…

Undated, aerial view of Friant, California located below Friant Dam at Millerton Lake. The town had its start as a ferry crossing on the San Joaquin River. In November 1856, the second license ever issued in Fresno County for operation of a ferry was…

Friant Dam under construction on the San Joaquin River. The Friant Dam ground breaking was on November 5, 1939 with Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, as guest speaker. Griffith Company and Bent Company of Los Angeles were awarded the Friant…

Picture of the dam construction on the Big Creek-San Joaquin River hydroelectric development on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. The card is postmarked at Big Creek, California on 31 November 1912 meaning this is probably one of…

Located at an elevation of 4,819 feet at the town of Big Creek, California, this is the first power house on the Big Creek Project to be placed on commerical operation. Generators powered by water falling from Huntington Lake Reservoir, providing…

Picture of Hutchinson Post Office in Fresno, taken in 1884, located in the two-story Hutchinson Block, currently the location of the Security Bank Building at Mariposa and Fulton Streets. The Hutchinson Block was built by Charles G. Hutchinson, a San…

A 1922 street scene of Mariposa Street looking east probably from atop the Fresno County Court House.

Forsyth Building is completely destroyed by Fire, loss million read the headline in the 20 March 1921, Fresno Morning Republican newspaper. The fire chief characterized the event as the biggest fire in the history of Fresno. A conservative estimate…

A 1920 scene at the corner of K (later Van Ness) and Tuolumne streets looking south along the 1300 block of K Street. The Woodman of the World (W.O.W.) Building is the first building on the left. A map of the period shows the W.O.W. Hall on the…

A 1920 street scene along the 1100 block of J Street (later Fulton) looking north from the Grand Central Hotel at the corner of Mariposa and J streets. Clearly seen on the right is the Strand Theatre at 1132 J Street. Also seen further up the street…