President Teddy Roosevelt and party standing at the base of the Grizzly Giant tree in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite, 1903. Left to right, two secret service agents; William H. Moody, Secretary of Navy; George Pardee, California…
First school in Coalinga oil field. Located on Confidence Oil Company lease near West Side discovery well, Confidence No. 2, in fall of 1900. Schoolhouse, an abandoned homesteader's cabin moved there for the purpose of being a school. Teacher was…
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…
Photograph taken on 100th birthday of Delano resident Alice J. Fox Martin Evans; Mrs. Evans is in center; Alice Evans was named "Mrs. Republican" in Delano in 1962