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Two-story frame hotel with porch and balcony. Musicians on balcony. Lafayette House was built on Douty Street in 1876 and burned July 12, 1886.

Lobby of Artesia Hotel located on the corner of Irwin and Sixth Streets in Hanford. Men seated around fountain and standing on stairs and at desk. African-American employees on balcony. Specter of man at top of stairs.

Men in long coats and top hats standing by flag-decked wagon in front of Artesia Hotel on Irwin Street in Hanford. Horatio Lacey, owner of Lacey Milling, is second from left.

Caption on back of picture: 1938-1939, Glenn Burd's mother, Hotel Lebec, 1928 car

View of downtown Bakersfield; from collection of Harlan Curnow

Front and side view of the two-story Oso House hotel, 1879, Bear Valley, Calif.; with people standing and seated on porches, and a horse and wagon in street.

Buggies, horseback rider and others in front of two-story Park House Hotel. Man, Emil Kreyenhagen, and his daughter, Gertrude, standing in front of building. Child, Gertrude Kreyenhagen, born October 4, 1885; 3 years old in photograph.

Crowd gathered at evening rally to gather support for construction of new hospital in Bakersfield; official posed at top of fire engine ladder; sign "you buy, we build your hospital;" various businesses visible

Postcard: Postmarked March 27, 1911, this postcard tells of the writer's enjoyment of "the trip up," which was the approximate 30-mile distance from Visalia to Three Rivers, CA. Depicted here is the popular River Inn, near the North Fork Bridge in…

Sentinel Hotel and nearby buildings, Yosemite Valley, circa 1890; with people and horse-drawn carriage in front of hotel, and valley cliffs in distance.