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Jacob & Company
This scene captured in the summer of 1874, is one of the earliest known Fresno photographs, taken at the corner of Mariposa and H Streets (a section of the old H Street where this was is now on Broadway St. ). It shows the small wood frame building of the general merchandise store of Jacob & Company, which also served as a Wells Fargo & Co. Express office and post office. First built by Millerton storekeeper and postmaster, Otto Froelich who arrived in the newly settled town in 1872, it was the second store established here, across from the Central Pacific Railroad line that cut across the plains where the town was built. Elias Jacob, his associate Louis Einstein, both of whom ran stores at Visalia, Centerville and Kingston, and H.D. Silverman, bought out Froelich in 1874. The three proprietors are believed to be at center of photo on the porch. A man at left, stands with a hand cart, as a woman, dressed in her finery, stands on the steps with her little girl, as men gather for the photograph, including one comfortably reclined at right, chair propped back, with feet up on a post. An essential piece of early-day technology for the Wells Fargo service attached to the building at left: a telegraph pole. A scarce commodity of sorts in the new, hot, dusty, settlement is seen in the foreground center and partially at right: young trees, planted no doubt for future shade, and thus protected by wood frames.
A parking lot, shrouded by a tall hedge, occupies the location.
Jacob & Company
This scene captured in the summer of 1874, is one of the earliest known Fresno photographs, taken at the corner of Mariposa and H Streets (a section of the old H Street where this was is now on Broadway St. ). It shows the small wood frame building of the general merchandise store of Jacob & Company, which also served as a Wells Fargo & Co. Express office and post office. First built by Millerton storekeeper and postmaster, Otto Froelich who arrived in the newly settled town in 1872, it was the second store established here, across from the Central Pacific Railroad line that cut across the plains where the town was built. Elias Jacob, his associate Louis Einstein, both of whom ran stores at Visalia, Centerville and Kingston, and H.D. Silverman, bought out Froelich in 1874. The three proprietors are believed to be at center of photo on the porch. A man at left, stands with a hand cart, as a woman, dressed in her finery, stands on the steps with her little girl, as men gather for the photograph, including one comfortably reclined at right, chair propped back, with feet up on a post. An essential piece of early-day technology for the Wells Fargo service attached to the building at left: a telegraph pole. A scarce commodity of sorts in the new, hot, dusty, settlement is seen in the foreground center and partially at right: young trees, planted no doubt for future shade, and thus protected by wood frames.
A parking lot, shrouded by a tall hedge, occupies the location.