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Office/Cafeteria Building, Fresno Senior Citizen’s Village, circa 1964. . The facility was eventually renamed the California League—Fresno Village. After its founding, the Village was billed as “a luxury country club, garden style, apartment…

Rowell (Fresno Municipal) Auditorium, located at 912 L Street, at the corner of L and Kern Streets. Postcard published by the Acmegraph Company, Chicago. Financed by Dr. Chester Rowell (1844-1912), onetime mayor of Fresno and one of its most…

Fresno Air Terminal, view by Heilbron-Jones Film Service, 1959. Situated roughly between Dakota, Clovis, McKinley and Chestnut avenues, the airport was first opened as Hammer Field in June 1942 by the Army Air Corps. The facility was released to…

Circa 1900 lithographic view of the Fresno Southern Pacific Railroad depot, constructed in 1889 in the Queen Anne architectural style. Published by the E.P. Charlton Co., an American five and dime store and predecessor to F.W. Woolworth & Co. Located…

Armory Hall and Barton Opera House, situated at the northeast corner of J (Fulton) and Fresno streets in Fresno, circa 1900. Armory Hall is situated behind the “Barton Opera House” sign on the corner. The Opera House itself is connected to Armory…

Southwest view down Mariposa Street (extreme left of image), circa 1930. Van Ness Avenue is obscured by trees in lower section of image. Temple Bar Building (1889) is the large structure at the Mariposa – Van Ness intersection. Behind it is the…

Novelty/Humorous Postcard. The J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., with offices in New York and Chicago, produced a wide variety of books and other printed materials during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A stock postcard from Raphael Tuck & Sons — postmarked 1909, Fresno? The Tuck postcard and novelty business began in 1866 in Bishopsgate, London, and reached its high-water mark during the turn of the century, when this item appeared. Though…

Apparently a stock postcard advocating raisins, turned by additional printing into a Fresno Chamber of Commerce promotion. Published by Charles T. Cearley (1865-1937), longtime Fresno stationer and book seller. Cartoon by Richard F. Outcault…

H. Graff & Co, J & Tulare Sts, grocery (March 1911 calendar card). Willard Cundiff was a cartoonist who did magazine and promotional work in southern California during the early 20th century. Hans Graff (1863-1918), a native of Denmark, immigrated to…