Browse Items (40 total)

  • Collection: Heritage Center Postcard Collection

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E. Gottschalk & Co., calendar card from March 1907 (“Sunbonnet Babies” Chicago). Gottschalk’s department store was founded in 1904 by Emil Gottschalk (1856-1939), formerly the manager of Kutner-Goldstein’s Fresno operation. It moved to a much…

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Fisher-Glassford Hardware Co., 1932-1934 Tulare St, Fresno (September 1911 calendar card). In 1903, the Fisher-Glassford Hardware Co. was founded in Fresno by Frederick W. Fisher (1854?-1910) and George H. Glassford (1862?-1910). Fisher was a…

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Fresno Savings Bank, 1923 Mariposa Street, Fresno (December 1910 calendar card). Created as a subsidiary of the Union National Bank of Fresno in March 1910, Albert B. Clark, local farmer, was president. Fresno Savings Bank opened for business in…

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Fresno Savings Bank, 1923 Mariposa Street, Fresno (June 1910 calendar card). Created as a subsidiary of the Union National Bank of Fresno in March 1910, Albert B. Clark, local farmer, was president. Apparently calendar cards were sent out on the…

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H. H. Pickett, 224 Abby Street, Fresno (includes advertisement for Tite Seal). Pickett (circa 1894--?) was the manager of the Fresno Disposal Co., a private waste collection business, during the 1930s. City directories subsequently list him at the…

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Frank Hickman, men’s clothing, 1922-24 Mariposa St. (R.F. Outcault cartoon of Buster Brown and Tige). Hickman (1871-1950), a West Virginia native, came to Fresno in 1905 and established a men’s clothing and accessories shop in partnership with…

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Farmers National Bank began on 3/8/1882. On 8/14/1889 it moved into its new building on the SE corner of Mariposa & I St.

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Postcard most likely made between 1949-1954. Nehi products was located at 390 Safford from 1944-1957. By 1958 it was listed as Royal Crown Cola Bottling Co.

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French Dye Works was located on J St. between Kern & Tulare. On July 24, 1914 a fire started in French Dye Works that destroyed the J.M. Ruth Building. The postcard is dated August 1910.

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Frank Reedy Buggy & Harness, 845-849 I St (lady angler litho). Frank Reedy (1855-1927), a native of England, settled in Fresno circa 1875. He initially found employment as a harnessmaker with Charles Sweitzer, and also worked for Frank Cummings in…
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