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Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c.1917. Both the Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls, on Yosemite Creek, are visible in this photograph, taken from the valley floor. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls 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
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Caption: "Capitola Calif," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy is seen standing in front of a large building in Capitola.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Church Butte [sic], near Green River, Wyoming. Oct. 2, 1934." The Church Buttes in Wyoming consist of sandstone eroded by wind and weather into a butte approximately 1,000 feet in diameter and rising up to 100 feet above the surrounding valley floor. Located along the Overland Route used by emigrants to the West Coast, the formation gained additional notoriety for being a camp site for Brigham Young and the first Mormon party to head west, as well as a relay site for the Pony Express.
Date: 10/2/1934
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Notice indicating the requirement for aliens to acquire Certificates of Identification; signed Earl G. Harrison and Francis Biddle; Attachment: "Summary of Proclamation of the President of the United States…" (F3729_144_002b)
Date: Undated
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Caption: "75m/m gun," c. 1906. William McCarthy is seen posing next to a large gun at an unidentified location.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: A page from a tourist brochure detailing travel information for tourists to Mexico, including automobile permits, money exchange, baggage inspection, accident insurance, firearms, hunting, registration for cameras, furs, and diamonds, and "Negro servants," which "require a cash bond of 250 pesos, which is refunded upon leaving Mexico."
Date: 1938
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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
