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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…

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…

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.

Parlor Lecture Club Building, Fresno, circa 1910. The building was constructed in 1909 and situated at 1350 Van Ness, near the southeast corner of Van Ness and Tuolumne streets. Published by Edward H. Mitchell of San Francisco, a large-scale postcard…

Los Angeles First National Trust & Savings Bank (Pacific Southwest Building, Security Bank Building), located at 1060 Fulton Street, Fresno, circa 1925. The view is looking roughly south from Courthouse Park, with the Anna Woodward Memorial Fountain…

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.

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…

The picture shows a draft horse, used for pulling heavy equipment (i.e. farm equipment). Earl C. Buchanan arrived in Fresno in 1899 and operated Star Horse Market for 5 years before selling it.

Post Office (right) and Fresno Morning Republican buildings, Fresno, California, circa 1910. View is looking in a southerly direction, slightly north of the intersection of K (Van Ness) and Tulare streets, at which intersection the buildings faced…

Public Library, Fresno, situated at 1330 I (Broadway) Street, Fresno, circa 1908. Published by the E.P. Charlton Co., an American five and dime store and predecessor to F.W. Woolworth & Co., and printed in Germany. At left, the side of the Fresno…