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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…

Photograph of fruits exhibited at a booth provided by the Chamber of Commerce, Fresno, California, in promoting farm produce from the area.

Busy, daytime street scene in downtown Fresno. Photo taken from corner of Fulton and Mariposa looking north up Fulton Street. The Helm building is on the left foreground at 1101 Fulton. Samuels Smoke House can be seen on the ground floor of the Helm…

A 1934's Fresno Street scene looking south on Fulton Street with the prominent Security Bank Building, constructed in 1923, on the left. Street banners indicate an election year. Frank F. Merriam and John R. Quinn faced off for the Republican…

Holiday street scene of 1920's Fulton Street looking north from the corner of Fulton and Kern streets. The J.C. Penney store seen in the left foreground on the corner of Fulton and Kern. Beyond the J.C. Penney store is the five story Radin & Kamp…

A 1920s view of the 1300 block of Fulton Street looking north with the prominent San Joaquin Light and Power Building (built in 1923) at the top of the photo at 1401 Fulton Street on the corner of Fulton and Tuolumne streets. Based on the postmark of…

Picture of G Street in Reedley in the 1920s. Picture was taken possibly looking at the corner of E and 11th streets.

Front facade of what appears to be the first high school building in Selma. The school began operating in September of 1897 at the intersection of McCall Avenue and Arrants Street. By 1904 the building was crowded and in 1911 voters approved a bond…

Picture of James Garfield Elementary School located at 2535 B Street in Selma, California, which was named after James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States. The school opened in September, 1938 and is currently one of twelve schools…

The Giant Sequoia called the General Grant Tree, the world's third-largest sequoia after the General Sherman tree and the Washington tree. The tree was discovered in 1862 by Joseph Hardin Thomas and named in 1867 by Lucretia Baker. Charles E. Lee…