Search All Items

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-155 with caption: "Trestle in Oregon, Taken from Observation Car Platform," c. 1906.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1917. Both Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls can be seen in this photograph, taken at a location near the base of Lower Yosemite Fall. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, it is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.

Date: 1917

Caption: "Old Geary Street Line -- Last Days Work of our Old Faithful Friend." Photograph of a horse-drawn cable car, on the last day of operation of the Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway. One of the first railways established in San Francisco, the line operated from 1880 until May 1912 when it was taken over by the city and converted to an electric streetcar line.

Date: 1912-05

No caption. Clipping from an unidentified newspaper or pamphlet entitled "Route of U.S. air mail route from New York to Macao." It shows an airmail route traveling from New York, west across the U.S. to the Hawaiian Islands, then to "Midway Islands," Wake Island, Guam, "Philippine Islands", and finally Macao, China.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Port Townsend Postoffice [sic], Wash.," c. 1908-1912. View from the rear of the Port Townsend U.S. Customs Office and Post Office. The oldest federally-constructed post office in the state of Washington, the Richardson Romanesque-style building was completed in 1893.

Date: 1908

List of Japanese Associations and summarizing paragraphs relating to each association created by R. E Lawrance

Date: February 18, 1942

Caption: "Don Gasper [sic] de Portola and Queen," 1909. Participants at the Portola Festival on horseback and dressed in period costume as Don Gaspar De Portola and Queen. The Portola Festival was a grand celebration devised to commemorate the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Gaspar De Portola, and for the public to celebrate the future of the rebuilt city after the 1906 earthquake and fires.

Date: 1909

Caption: "In Ford Building Court, San Diego Exposition," 1935, shows William and Grace McCarthy sitting near a fountain in the Ford Building Court, at the California-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Toboggan Slide - Mount Royal Park - Montreal," c. 1925. William and Grace McCarthy pose in front of a large toboggan slide, absent of snow, at Montreal's Mount Royal Park.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Third and Kearney S.F.," c. 1912-1915. Street scene at the intersection of Third Street and Kearney Street in San Francisco.

Date: 1915