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Caption: "Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park," San Francisco, c. 1907. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the still existing Japanese Tea Garden is now the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States.

Date: 1907

Caption: "Tiajuana [sic] Mexico," c. 1915-1916. William (sporting a serape and wide-brimmed hat) and Grace McCarthy, with two unidentified individuals, with their automobile in Tijuana, Mexico.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Driving Piles in the Breakers, Columbia River Jetty." c. 1905.

Date: 1905

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-227, with caption: "Field Piece in Action." Unidentified location, c. 1905.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Looking from the Track Above," c. 1907. A view of a train engine and two cars taken from above at Mount Tamalpais.

Date: 1907

Caption: "A Nebraska Corn Bin, Many of These are Seen in Iowa and Eastern Nebraska. Sept. 27, 1934." A simple corn crib in Nebraska, where the corn ears are contained by wire fencing and sheltered by a gabled roof.

Date: 9/27/1934

Caption: "#2 -- Record Oct 25, 09." This postcard shows 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. This only lasted four years, however, for 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, however, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott.

Date: 1909-10-25

Caption: "Butte, population 40,000. The city of Butte is honeycombed underneath by numerous copper mines. The mining section, Butte, Mo. one mile high & one mile deep," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Crown Point.," c. 1920. Shows the Vista House, built in 1918 as a memorial to Oregon's pioneers. Designed by Edgar M. Lazarus, it sits atop Crown Point, a rocky promontory overlooking the Columbia River gorge, along the Historic Columbia River Highway.

Date: 1920

No Caption: William and Grace McCarthy standing in the Court of Abundance, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915