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Two men standing on the main headgate of Kings River of the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company canal. The water just above the gate will average about eight feet in depth for a width of sixty feet, with the pressure of fall sufficient to cause a…

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…

Fresno Chamber of Commerce Building, situated in Commercial Park, next to the Fresno Southern Pacific Railroad Depot

The carbarn of the Fresno City Railway with 3 railcars and employees standing in front.

Picture of Fresno Colony Elementary School, Easton, Calif., built in 1898 and razed sometime after 1945. Features Western Stick architectural style. This was the second schoolhouse to occupy the site and replaced a one-story building. The Fresno…

Front view of the Fresno County Courthouse, which was completed in 1875 and served the county until 1966. A fountain with a statue, "The boy with the leaking boot", is seen in the foreground of the building. The statue was cast from pewter by Daniel…

Front view of the Fresno County Courthouse, which was completed in 1875; the county's Board of Supervisors met here for the first time on September 6 of that year. About four acres of land around the courthouse were landscaped as a park between 1878…

An unusual scene of snow on the ground in Fresno, looking at the courthouse up Mariposa Street, from Van Ness, the Water Tower in the background.

Picture of Fresno Fairgounds located 2.5 miles east of Fresno, adjacent to County Road (later renamed Butler Avenue). Property was owned and initially developed by William Helm, beginning in 1884 with the first Fresno County fair. Vignettes, from top…