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Caption: "Del Monte," c. 1920. Five unidentified women standing in front of a palm tree on the grounds of the Hotel Del Monte. The photograph shows the second of three hotels built on the site, near Monterey, California (this building was destroyed by fire in 1924). The property surrounding the hotel became known as Pebble Beach.

Date: 1920

Caption: "Botanical Garden - St. Louis," c. 1923. View of the Palm House, built in 1915 to house tropical plants in the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. It was torn down in 1959 to make room for the domed geodesic Climatron building which still stands at the site. See also 96-07-08-alb04-091.

Date: 1923

S. F. Produce Exchange Call List

Date: 1884

Caption: "Tabernacle -- Salt Lake City," c. 1916. View of the domed Salt Lake Tabernacle, built from 1864-1867. The Tabernacle housed meetings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints until new facilities were constructed in 2000. The Tabernacle is home to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and is considered to be one of the most acoustically perfect buildings in the world due to its unique dome-shaped roof.

Date: 1916

Caption: "Yosemite Falls," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy two unidentified friends pose for a photograph on the trail to Yosemite Falls. Both Upper and Lower Fall can be seen in this photograph. 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

Caption: "Cascade Falls," c. 1917. Erroneously labeled as Cascade Falls, this photograph actually shows both the Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls as viewed from the floor of Yosemite Valley. 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

Caption: "Devil's Kitchen," c. 1923. This photograph shows several people descending into and standing around the entry to Devil's Kitchen, an extinct hot spring that left behind a cavern. Once a popular tourist attraction for its small opening that made visitors feel as if they were descending into the underworld, the site was closed in 1939 because the cavern periodically fills with dangerous levels of carbon dioxide.

Date: 1923

Caption: "The Rocky Sierra Summit Above Donner Lake." Mountain scene with dirt and graveled roadway, likely along what is now Interstate 80.

Date: 1927

Caption: "Presidio Main Avenue," c. 1906, shows a tree lined dirt road in the Presidio. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Column of Progress," in the Forecourt of Stars. At top of column is The Adventurous Bowman (Hermon A. MacNeil, sculptor), and at the base of the column is a four panel frieze (Isadore Konti, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915