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A biographical sketch of A. W. Anderson. A. Anderson was the president and manager of The Mechanics Planing Mill, located at 600 P Street. Mr. Anderson was also the president of The Anderson and Hall Builders' Supply Company, located at 2225 Fresno…

A biographical sketch of Harry W. Allen. Harry Allen was the president of The Fresno Realty Syndicate and owner of The Coliseum Billiard Parlors, located at 1035 J. Street, Fresno, California. Mr. Allen was also the president of the…

A biographical sketch and photo of Thomas Richard Adams. Thomas Adams was a partner of Adams & Gordon, General Blacksmiths and Implement Dealers, located at 1915 W. Front St., Selma, California. In September, 1896 he married Delia M. Blanton (last…

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…