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Aerial view of downtown Fresno in the early 1920s looking east with the County Courthouse in the upper center of the photo. Clearly seen in the upper right is the Hotel California (built in 1923) at the corner of Van Ness and Kern. Proceeding down…

Front view of the Fresno County Courthouse, which was completed in 1875 and served the county until 1966. A fountain with a statue, "The boy with the leaking boot", is seen in the foreground of the building. The statue was cast from pewter by Daniel…

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…

Picture of Fresno County Hospital which was completed in 1903 after a fire destroyed the original building in 1900. The hospital entrance is designed with a brick veranda encircling the building, which shows a trait of Mission style. The picture was…

The Fresno County Old People's Home was built in 1907 on the south side of Ventura Avenue and was in use until 1922 when the facility moved into the remodeled orphanage on Tenth Street and Ventura Avenue. This is probably the Tenth and Ventura…

The Fresno Hook and Ladder Company was organized in February 24, 1877. Mr. Leopold (Lee) Gundelfinger was the fire chief, is seated in the center of the front row of this photograph. The other fire fighters starting in the back row, left to right,…

A portion of the 45 mile long flume constructed in 1893-1894 by Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company to carry bundles of cut lumber from Shaver Lake to Clovis, California. The use of wooden waterways provided an efficient and practical means of…

Picture of Washington Grammar School located between N and O streets in Fresno, California, constructed between 1898 and 1906. Building doesn't appear in 1898's map but is shown in 1906's Sanborn map. Part of Hawthorne Public School is shown on the…

Picture of Fresno Hish School located on O Street in Fresno, California, constructed in 1896 with the expenditure of $53,000. School, which was established in 1889 on the site of the 2nd floor of the K Street Grammar school, moved in this new…

Photo of a two story wooden building at Fresno Hot Springs possibly the hotel built in 1896 by Colonel Henry Burrough. Originally known as Roger's Sulphur Springs after its discover by James Rogers, later Fresno Hot Springs, and today Coalinga…