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Looking northeast toward Fresno County Courthouse, built in 1874-1875. First National Bank building on left and Fresno National Bank building on right. First tower in distance on left-hand side of image is the Fiske Block, and tower behind it is the…

International Harvester came out with the one-row mechanical cotton picker in 1949 after World War II. The mechanical cotton picker had been in development since 1933. Tom Honeycutt wrote a book entitled "The Second Emancipation: Inventor John Rust…

This photo shows the Dinuba branch library interior in 1929. First constructed in 1916-1917 through a Dale Carnegie grant, it is part of the Tulare County Library system.

Electrical generators located inside Power House Number 3, part of California Edison's Big Creek Project in the Sierra mountains. Hailed by the press as "the Electrical Giant of the West" for its then 99,000 kilowatts of rated capacity made it the…

Interior of Nieman's hardware store. Charles Nieman on the right and John Will on the left.

Fresno Swimming Baths, an indoor swimming pool. It was complete with a ladies parlor, ladies grand dressing room, gentleman's club, smoking room, shower baths and over 100 private dressing rooms. The tank is 100 x 40 feet and from two to ten feet in…

This library, a gift to the community of Exeter, Calif., from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, cost $5,000 to build in 1916. It measured 28' x 50'.

An interior view of the Patigian Brothers art studio in the Library building. They established themselves in Fresno in 1890-1. Mr. Horen Patigian is a pen and pencil sketch artist and his brother Haig Patigian does well with a brush.

An epic display of Fresno's agricultural offerings.