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Adventist camp meeting on the northwest corner of P and Mariposa streets. The Seventh-Day Adventist formally organized in Fresno in 1888 after sporadic meetings in and around the area. Moses J. Church, a convert to the religion, built a $40,000…

The entire business district of Reedley was destroyed in a disastrous fire the morning of 11 August 1902. The Fresno Morning Republican newspaper reported the following day how the fire broke out at approximately 12:45 in the morning starting in a…

Photograph of the winter scene at Huntington Lake, located at the 7,000 foot level in the Sierras, taken probably in the 1920s or early 1930s. The Huntington Lake area, sixty-five miles northeast of Fresno, developed as a recreation center after the…

Photograph of the American Vineyard Company Baseball Team with onlookers watching from the bleachers in the background. Del Rey is located about 15 miles southeast of Fresno with the communities of Sanger, Fowler, Selma, and Parlier within a six…

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,…

An 1888 flood scene showing the damage along Inyo street. The Arlington Hotel is seen on the right at the intersection of Inyo and J streets. In the distance is probably a freight warehouse of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Untitled postcard containing five individual photographs of the five principal Fresno banks and their location. Fresno National Bank was organized on May 1, 1888 and located at the northwest corner of Tulare and J (Fulton) streets in a new…

A log bath house at Mono Hot Springs, California located 86 miles northeast of Fresno on the South Fork of the San Joaquin River at the far eastern edge of the county. The town developed around the hot mineral springs famous for healing effects on…

Summer scene showing the Big Creek Hotel in Big Creek, California. High in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California the hotel was built in 1914 by William Thrower. In 1902, John S. Eastwood, engineer for the Pacific Light and Power Company, selected…

A 1920's winter scene high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in the town of Big Creek. The only identifiable building is the Big Creek Post Office. In 1902, John S. Eastwood, engineer for the Pacific Light and Power Company, selected Big…