Research Catalog

Title

The Fresno Fair : as seen through the lens of Claude C. "Pop" Laval / [compiled and written by] Elizabeth M. Laval ; research & photographic editor, Stephen L. Brown ; contributing author, William J. Conway, Jr ; [foreword by Brian T. Tatarian].

Author

Laval, Claude C., 1882-1966.

Publication

Sanger, CA : Word Dancer Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Laval, Elizabeth M.
• Conway, William J.

Description

118 p. : ill.; 23 x 25 cm.

Summary

The first Fresno Fair opened in 1883 with five days of horse racing, a live stock exhibit, and a few small produce stalls. Modest as it was, it was a huge success; only five years later, a grandstand was added to the fairgrounds. Agriculture, industrial, and commerce exhibit halls followed in the early 1900s. A wooden race track was built in 1920. Claude C. "Pop" Laval's camera lens missed little of the excitement of the early fairs. Many of his magnificent photographs are available in print for the first time in this book. Each is literally a snapshot in time, revealing the historical richness of our Valley's great community event. Proceeds from the sale of each book benefit the restoration project of the Claude C. "Pop" Laval Photographic Collection. Your purchase of a piece of "Pop's" treasure will help ensure that future generations can enjoy seeing the Valley as "Pop" saw it, through the "Windows on the Past."

Subject

• Laval, Claude C., 1882-1966 > Photograph collections
• Fairs > Fresno > History > Pictorial works
• Fresno (Calif.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1884995489

LCCN

^^2004020151

OCLC

• 56414160
• SCSB-10560182

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library