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A view of the Shaver Lake Sawmill site. Railroad tracks and the Shaver Flume can be seen in the picture.

A wintertime scene of Barnes's Service Station and the Big Creek Post Office and Store early 1920's rebuilt after a fire.

Looking up the road in Big Creek, California 1923. On the left side of the road is a dentist office and Murphy's Art Shop on the right various structures and the wooden school buildings in the center at a distance.

C.J. Aggergaard Department store and residence, Big Creek, CA.

The Big Creek Garage and Big Creek Parlor with a few locals on the front porch and a horse team and 2 men in the foreground. Taken in the winter time with snow on the ground.

This lobby view of the Hughes Hotel shows the check in desk, the elevator and looks into the dining room. The Hughes Hotel was built in 1887 by Thomas Hughes. It was on two lots at Tulare and I Street (now Broadway). It was a four story brick…

The Grill Room at the Hughes was created in what had been a courtyard space with the hotel first opened. You can see a circular planter in the middle of the picture where a fountain or tree had been planted when the hotel first opened. The stairway…

In 1877, a young man Leopold Gundlefinger (seated, center) and others helped form a volunteer fire "hook and ladder" company". Mr. Gundlefinger was Fresno's first foreman fighting fires with a wagon loaded with ladders, ropes, axes, and buckets.