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View from Courthouse dome, looking west, Fresno, circa 1907. Real B&W photo postcard manufactured by the Besaw Post Card Co. of Reedley via Kruxo process (1905-1920s). The firm was owned by George Besaw (1880-1970). The image is roughly datable as…

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…

Big Creek was first settled in 1911. Big Creek’s post office was first established June 7, 1912. Big Creek was called Big Creek Flats in the 1870’s, Manzanita Park in 1902, and for some period until 1926 was called Cascada.

San Joaquin Light and Power Building, located at 1947 Tuolumne Street (northwest corner of Fulton and Tuolumne streets), Fresno, circa 1930. In the building’s earlier years, it was often dramatically illuminated at night; the image depicts one of…

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…

Sunbonnet Babies having tea, calendar card from June 1907. 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 larger location at Tulare…

Pictures of babies heads hanging from a tree like fruit. Maxwell & Mudge was founded by John Franklin “Frank” Maxwell (1867-1955), a West Virginia native who migrated to the Fresno area in 1889. After going back East, he learned the photography…

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…

Y.M.C.A. Building, Fresno, California, circa 1900, situated at 1350 Broadway, on the east side of the street and between Tuolumne and Merced streets. The building was next door to the Fresno County Public Library; a portion of its frontage is visible…

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.