Browse Items (40 total)

  • Collection: Heritage Center Postcard Collection

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“Greetings from Fresno, Calif.” Postcard, copyright 1907. B&W undivided back card, with paper heart affixed to recto; manufactured by the Glazier Art Co. of Boston; “controlled” by the Samuel Ward Co.; postmarked February 14, 1911 on verso.…

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Garnet L. “Bill” Billings, Farm Equipment and Wholesale Distributor, located at 2122 S. G Street, Fresno, circa 1970. Color lithographic postcard published by Chet Jones of Fresno. Billings (1905-1982) poses with wife Velma (1905-1999) next to a…

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Depicts an old mill, money bags, calendar, The Power of Money message. Fresno Savings Bank, 1923 Mariposa St, Fresno. Created as a subsidiary of the Union National Bank of Fresno in March 1910, Albert B. Clark, local farmer, was president. Bank…

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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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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…

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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…

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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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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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