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Office Memorandum from Bessie Sheriff (by Edna H. Taylor) to Bertha S. Underhill regarding summary of review in San Bernardino County; Sections: Organization; Civilian War Assistance; Enemy Alien

Date: November 27, 1945

Caption: "Target Practice," c. 1908. This postcard shows a plume of seawater thrown up by a mortar shell during target practice at Fort Point. The facilities at Fort Point were part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay. Its name was officially changed in 1882 to Fort Winfield Scott, but in 1886 the fort was officially downgraded to a sub-post of the San Francisco Presidio and the name discontinued. It was resurrected in 1912, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott. See also 96-07-08-alb05-322.

Date: 1908

No Caption: An unidentified California Indian man standing in front of a wigwam covered in tree bark, and wearing a headdress, feather skirt and shawl, beads, and moccasins, and holding a small drum decorated with arrows, c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Colonnades of the Agriculture and Transportation Building," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Sacramento River." Pictured is a schooner with a load of hay on the Sacramento River, c. 1910.

Date: 1910

No Caption: c. 1906. Grace McCarthy posing with an unidentified woman, possibly at a photography studio.

Date: 1906

No Caption: View of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at dusk, with pathways defined by globe lights. The Government Building can be seen in the center of the photograph. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Congress Springs.," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy seated on an unusual bench made from a tree branch and logs, in front of a timber shelter at Pacific Congress Springs near Saratoga in California's Santa Clara Valley. Pacific Congress Springs, a mineral spring named after Congress Springs in New York, operated as a resort area from the nineteenth century until the 1930s.

Date: 1910

Hand-drawn sketch map of Arroyo de los Pilarcitos boundaries. Volume 1, page 588.

Date: 1840

Caption: "Motor Railroad Car.," c. 1905-1909. Shows a trolley car or railcar labeled "U.S. Mail 333."

Date: 1905