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Woman's Club of Bakersfield, 2030 18th St.

Shows a woman, possibly a patient, standing beside a large potted cactus, outside one of the buildings at Stony Brook Retreat.

Woman gathered outside doing their laundry at the camp.

Picture of Wolters Elementary School, built in 1916 as Ernest J. Kump, an architect, near the intersection of Shaw Avenue and First Street, Fresno, Calif. Mission Revival architectural elements. The building was the second schoolhouse to occupy the…

Kern County Library, Wofford Heights Branch, Wofford Heights, CA.

Panoramic view of Coulterville, Calif., 1930s-1940s; looking east, with snow covering buildings and hillsides.

Winter conditions at possibly a construction camp of the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project begun in 1910 in the remote canyons of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. By 1920 Big Creek was a construction town of 5,200 workers spread over thirty-two…

Snowy street between rows of barracks.

In 1923 local fliers organized an event to raise funds for an aviation field. Six years later, local State Senator Wilbur Chandler decided to give 100 acres to the city of Fresno to build an air field now known as Chandler Field. Fresno and Mariposa…