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Caption: "CHICAGO AND BENNINGTON, OFFICERS & CREW." View of the USS Chicago. The flagship of the US fleet in the Pacific at the time, the USS Chicago was called to the fort after a boiler explosion on the USS Bennington killed sixty-six and wounded dozens more. A board of inquiry into the cause of the explosion was convened on board the Chicago. The board found that no error on the part of the Bennington's crew contributed to the explosion.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Vanderbilt Hotel N.Y," c. 1925. Wealthy businessman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sr. had the Vanderbilt Hotel constructed on the site of a former Vanderbilt residence in New York City, just six blocks from the new Grand Central Terminal. Designed by architects Warren & Wetmore, the hotel opened in 1912. The top two stories were constructed as a private residence for Vanderbilt's family. The hotel still stands today, although it has undergone some renovations.

Date: 1925

No caption, c. 1920. Scene showing the La Plaza Building in Atascadero. Opened in 1917 and designed by John J. Roth, the building contained shops, a post office, and a movie theater on the lower floors, while the rooms of the Atascadero Inn occupied the top floor. The building was converted entirely to the Atascadero Inn in the 1920s, but was subsequently destroyed by fire in 1934.

Date: 1920

Caption: "Santa Fe Depot, San Diego," c. 1908. Built in 1887 for the California Southern Railroad Company, the small depot station was later demolished to make way for a much larger station, which opened in 1915.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Chicago River," c. 1923. A train crosses Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River in this photograph. The bascule bridge, engineered by the Chicago Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, opened to traffic in 1920.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Portion of Nob Hill," c. 1906. A portion of Nob Hill, with the Fairmont Hotel on the right side of the photograph, reveals the destruction from the 1906 earthquake and fires.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Main Entrance, Stockton Insane Asylum," c. 1906. The Stockton Insane Asylum was established in 1851, completed in 1853, and was the first public mental health hospital in California. It remained a functioning state hospital until 1995.

Date: 1906

Caption: "In The Red Bug." Two unidentified boys pose in a small go-cart near the carport in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

Date: 1934

Caption: "Kingsbury Grade -- Nevada." Shows a hairpin turn on the Kingsbury Grade in Douglas County, Nevada. Now part of Nevada State Route 207, the road intersects U.S. Highway 50 near the southeastern corner of Lake Tahoe.

Date: 1927

Caption: "Portion of Cities [sic] Beauty, Washington, D.C. July 26, 1934, Taken from Washington Capitol Dome." Bird's eye view of a portion of Washington, D.C., showing Upper and Lower Senate Parks.

Date: 7/25/1934