Documenting the work of photographer Claude C. “Pop” Laval in Fresno, California, this collection begins with his arrival in 1911, which marked the beginning of a commercial photography career that would span 55 years, and showcases the many pictures that he took of the surrounding mountains, crops, businesses, streetcars, presidents, and ordinary people. These photographs would later comprise the largest portion of Laval’s work and now serve as a photographic record of Fresno that covers the years of the city’s greatest growth.