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Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Farmer from Independence, Kansas, on the road at cotton chopping time. He and his family have been in California for six months

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Farmer from Independence, Kansas...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

G.A.R. rabbit drive, no. 6

G.A.R. rabbit drive, no. 6

Photograph shows people viewing dead rabbits after Jack Rabbit Drive at Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Fresno, California. 44844 U.S. Copyright Office. Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich... More

Raisin drying racks in Southern California

Raisin drying racks in Southern California

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Raisin drying racks in Southern CA. Caption for similar image (LC-USZ62-77141) lists location as Fresno. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51400". ... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

G.A.R. rabbit drive, no. 4 - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

G.A.R. rabbit drive, no. 4 - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Photograph shows men beating rabbits to death in a pen as others watch at Jack Rabbit Drive at Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Fresno, California. 44842 U.S. Copyright Office.

Between Tulare and Fresno. (See general caption). Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, on U.S. 99. Started out from Fresno that morning for work cotton chopping

Between Tulare and Fresno. (See general caption). Two families origina...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Between Tulare and Fresno, California. (See general caption)

Between Tulare and Fresno, California. (See general caption)

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fresno. On U.S. 99. Storefront of San Joaquin Valley town. California

Fresno. On U.S. 99. Storefront of San Joaquin Valley town. California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Between Tulare and Fresno, California. Along the highway U.S. 99 at Highway City

Between Tulare and Fresno, California. Along the highway U.S. 99 at Hi...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Archie Krotlian playing oud, half-length portrait, photograph

Archie Krotlian playing oud, half-length portrait, photograph

Photograph caption: "The pick is an eagle's feather from the Caucasus." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Aslanian's Armenian Orchestra performing Armenian and Armeno-Turkish dance music on A... More

Star and two patches, Blackbeard's mini golf, Fresno, California

Star and two patches, Blackbeard's mini golf, Fresno, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, California

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, Calif...

The gardens are an unusual manmade creation built by Baldasare Forestiere, an immigrant from Sicily, over a period of 40 years from 1906 to until his death in 1946. Countless hours were spent excavating the har... More

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, California

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, Calif...

The gardens are an unusual manmade creation built by Baldasare Forestiere, an immigrant from Sicily, over a period of 40 years from 1906 to until his death in 1946. Countless hours were spent excavating the har... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 3 Penstock Standpipes, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 3 Penstock Standpipes, Big ...

Significance: Three of the four powerhouse no. 3 penstock standpipes were constructed in 1923 during the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Their significance derives from association with th... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Panorama view of Fresno, Cal.,  Panoramic Photograph

Panorama view of Fresno, Cal., Panoramic Photograph

J234819 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; July 12, 1915. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Mother of five children from Oklahoma, now picking cotton in Californi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Many small second businesses and stores on U.S. 99. Approaching Fresno. See general caption

Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Many small second businesses and stor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. See general caption. Many auto camps of all kinds are strewn along this highway

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. See general caption. Many auto c...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Farmer from Independence, Kansas, on the road at cotton chipping time. He and his family have been in California for six months

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Farmer from Independence, Kansas...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Between Tulare and Fresno, On U.S. 99. See general caption. Many auto camps of this kind are strewn along the highway

Between Tulare and Fresno, On U.S. 99. See general caption. Many auto ...

Public domain photograph of a cabin interior, small room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bedros Haroutunian holding saz, facing left, portrait, photograph

Bedros Haroutunian holding saz, facing left, portrait, photograph

Photograph caption: "Saz, a 3-stringed plucked instrument, very old in Armenia. Owned by Mr. Bedros Haroutunian. . . (No player located)." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Bedros Haroutunian... More

Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one dollar a month, kerosene for cooking five dollars per month, approximately. They own a 1929 Ford. "The cheapest thing for the government to do would be to put people like me on enough land to make a living on. You can't tell me anything about running around with the fruit, I know that deal. You are lucky if you make enough to get home. I'm not a kickin', I'm being tuk care of, but if I should live to be hundred this way I'm not getting ahead noways."

Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family fro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Fresno Motel sign, Fresno, California

Fresno Motel sign, Fresno, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Drying grapes for raisins, Fresno, Cal.

Drying grapes for raisins, Fresno, Cal.

Stereo copyrighted by Stereo-Travel Co. No. 28. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fruit Grapes.

Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California. The parents are working in the cotton field

Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, Cali...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hartop Goshtigian playing the violin, portrait, photograph

Hartop Goshtigian playing the violin, portrait, photograph

Photograph caption: "Armenian from Constantinople." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Mary and Hartop Goshtigian performing Armenian and Armeno-Turkish songs and music on April 17, 1939, coll... More

Between Tulare and Fresno. Stockyards seen from overpass. (See general caption.) California

Between Tulare and Fresno. Stockyards seen from overpass. (See general...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Joe Bedrosian playing his zurna while being photographed by WPA photographer, photograph

Joe Bedrosian playing his zurna while being photographed by WPA photog...

Half-length portrait of Joe Bedrosian, seated, on left side of photograph. Photographer on right side of photo not identified. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Joe Bedrosian performing Arme... More

U.S. 99. Fresno County. "Pit and tools for rent--work on your own." California

U.S. 99. Fresno County. "Pit and tools for rent--work on your own." Ca...

Public domain photograph of California industry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mural and roadside flowers in Fresno, California

Mural and roadside flowers in Fresno, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Astro Motel sign, Motel Drive, Fresno, California

Astro Motel sign, Motel Drive, Fresno, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motel signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photo... More

Concrete decor, Blackbeard's mini golf, Fresno, California

Concrete decor, Blackbeard's mini golf, Fresno, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Candy Motel sign, Route 99, Fresno, California

Candy Motel sign, Route 99, Fresno, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motel signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photo... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno, California

Radiator and license of Oklahoma cotton picker's car. San Joaquin Vall...

Public domain photograph of a car, history of automobile design, car model, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Illuminated sign, approaching San Joaquin Valley town. See general caption. California

Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Illuminated sign, approaching San Joa...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Between Tulare and Fresno (see general caption). Two families originating from Independence, Kansas, on U.S. 99. Started out from Fresno that morning for work cotton chopping

Between Tulare and Fresno (see general caption). Two families originat...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Between Tulare and Fresno. Overpass on U.S. 99. California. See general caption

Between Tulare and Fresno. Overpass on U.S. 99. California. See genera...

Public domain photograph of freight train, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, California

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, Calif...

The gardens are an unusual manmade creation built by Baldasare Forestiere, an immigrant from Sicily, over a period of 40 years from 1906 to until his death in 1946. Countless hours were spent excavating the har... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Raisin drying racks in a vineyard, at Fresno, Cal.

Raisin drying racks in a vineyard, at Fresno, Cal.

Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 014019. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress.

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, California, picking cotton

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living near Fresno, Californi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Tower Theater, Fresno, California

Tower Theater, Fresno, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, California

Forestiere Underground Gardens at 5021 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, Calif...

The gardens are an unusual manmade creation built by Baldasare Forestiere, an immigrant from Sicily, over a period of 40 years from 1906 to until his death in 1946. Countless hours were spent excavating the har... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Ira H. Brooks House, 350 North Fulton Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, C...

Significance: The Ira H. Brooks House was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 at the local level: significant under criterion A for its association with and con... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House Garage, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House Garage,...

Survey number: HAER CA-167-D Public domain photograph of hydroelectric power station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House Garage, Orchard Avenue south of Huntington Lake Road, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House Garage,...

Survey number: HAER CA-167-D Public domain photograph of hydroelectric power station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, CA

Burnett Nurse's Home, 120 North Howard Street, Fresno, Fresno County, ...

Significance: The 1919, Burnett Nurses Home is one of two remaining structures from the Burnett Sanitarium, the city's first private health care facility. It is an example of the community's desire to create a... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Employment signs in Spanish and English. These ranches (1938) increasingly use Negro pickers. Near Fresno, California

Employment signs in Spanish and English. These ranches (1938) increasi...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, ne...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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