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Caption: "Venice," c. 1915-1916. Street scene in Venice, California. The "Venice of America Band" is playing in the center of the photograph.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Logging Train -- Scene in Washington," c. 1905-1909. This photograph shows the final cars on a logging train in Washington, with a caboose at the end, traveling over a trestle under cloudy skies.

Date: 1905

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-182, with caption: "San Francsico April 17, 1906. Center of Town." Bird's eye view of the center of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Call Building (built in the 1890s to house the San Francisco Call newspaper) is the tallest building in the photograph, just to the right of center.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Steamer MINNESOTA," c. 1909. View of the steamship Minnesota II, built in 1903. She was said to be the largest U.S. merchant ship afloat at the time. Operated by the Great Northern Steamship Company, she sailed between the U.S. and markets in Asia until 1915. In 1917 the Minnesota II began operating in the Atlantic between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy commissioned her as a troop ship in 1919, changing her name to Troy. She brought over 14,000 U.S. troops home from war-torn Europe. She never resumed active service after this, being scrapped in 1923. See also 96-07-08-alb08-111.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Store House," c. 1905. The Benicia Arsenal Store House, also known as the Clocktower building, was erected in 1859 at three stories high. In 1912, an explosion and fire caused extensive damage, after which it was rebuilt as a two-story structure.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Benicia Cal," c. 1905-1906. Group of eight unidentified people posing around a cannon.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Tree Bareing [sic] 8 Varieties of Fruit. Shields Date Gardens - Blythe, Calif. May 31, 1935," shows William McCarthy standing next to a tree that bears eight varieties of fruit.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Washington," State of Washington Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-138.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Healdsburg Bridge," c. 1921. The Healdsburg Memorial Bridge, built in 1921, is a pin-connected Pennsylvania through truss structure across the Russian River in Sonoma County, near Healdsburg. A line of people stands at the bridge railing in this photograph.

Date: 1921

No caption. Reverse of a souvenir ticket for the "Official Pedestrian Day" on May 27, 1937, held as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. The celebrations occupied an entire week, kicked off by Pedestrian Day, when more 200,000 people were allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on foot or on roller skates, the day before the bridge opened for vehicular traffic.

Date: 5/27/1937