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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…

Wonderland Roller Arena, located at 5090 N. Blackstone Ave., Fresno, circa 1950. Color lithographic postcard published by Willats Printing of San Francisco. Owners Frank and Josephine Torcaso opened the first Wonderland in May 1949, at 5310 N.…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…