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Fresno City Hall, located at 1254 I (Broadway) Street, on the southeast corner of I (Broadway) and Merced streets, circa 1907. Color lithographic, divided-back postcard with oval center framed by intaglio, published by the Newman Post Card Co. of Los…

County Orphanage, Fresno, circa 1910. Color lithographic postcard published by Edward H. Mitchell of San Francisco, a large-scale postcard manufacturer. The building was situated at 3928 E. Ventura Avenue, between Ninth and Tenth streets. The…

“Grand March, Central California Youth’s Congress, January 1945, Fresno Memorial Auditorium.” Card published by Artvue Post Card Co. of New York City. The conference was held on January 6-7, 1945, in the Fresno Memorial Auditorium (1936,…

Public Library, Fresno, situated at 1330 I (Broadway) Street, Fresno, circa 1908. Published by the E.P. Charlton Co., an American five and dime store and predecessor to F.W. Woolworth & Co., and printed in Germany. At left, the side of the Fresno…

Parlor Lecture Club Building, Fresno, circa 1910. The building was constructed in 1909 and situated at 1350 Van Ness, near the southeast corner of Van Ness and Tuolumne streets. Published by Edward H. Mitchell of San Francisco, a large-scale postcard…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Armory Hall and Barton Opera House, situated at the northeast corner of J (Fulton) and Fresno streets in Fresno, circa 1900. Armory Hall is situated behind the “Barton Opera House” sign on the corner. The Opera House itself is connected to Armory…