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Windsor School was organized in May 1892 as part of the Reedley Union High School District. E. J. Buckman, shown here with students, was the principal in 1913.

An article about San Joaquin Valley wine industry by M. F. Tarpey. Provides a brief history and description of practices, from harvesting, fermenting, racking, storing and fortifying wines, including sherries, vino and brandy. Includes photograph of…

In 1923 local fliers organized an event to raise funds for an aviation field. Six years later, local State Senator Wilbur Chandler decided to give 100 acres to the city of Fresno to build an air field now known as Chandler Field. Fresno and Mariposa…

Snowy street between rows of barracks.

Winter conditions at possibly a construction camp of the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project begun in 1910 in the remote canyons of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. By 1920 Big Creek was a construction town of 5,200 workers spread over thirty-two…

Panoramic view of Coulterville, Calif., 1930s-1940s; looking east, with snow covering buildings and hillsides.

Kern County Library, Wofford Heights Branch, Wofford Heights, CA.

Picture of Wolters Elementary School, built in 1916 as Ernest J. Kump, an architect, near the intersection of Shaw Avenue and First Street, Fresno, Calif. Mission Revival architectural elements. The building was the second schoolhouse to occupy the…

Woman gathered outside doing their laundry at the camp.

Shows a woman, possibly a patient, standing beside a large potted cactus, outside one of the buildings at Stony Brook Retreat.