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Pioneer Mixed Paint

Date: 1880

Caption: "Sea Beach Hotel," c. 1910. The Sea Beach Hotel, located on Beach Hill in Santa Cruz, was built in the 1870s by S.A. Hall. Originally called the Ocean View House, it was sold in the 1880s. Its new owner dubbed the building the Sea Beach Hotel. The resort hotel operated until burning down in 1912, never to be reconstructed.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Grand canyon -- Yellowstone," c. 1920s. View looking down into canyon, featuring steep terrain. The Yellowstone River can be seen at the lower left.

Date: 1920

Caption: "Old Landmark, Seaside, Or.," c. 1910. Shows a picket fence erected around what a sign calls "Remains of Cairn where Lewis & Clark made salt from the ocean water Jan. & Feb. 1806." When the famous expedition led by Merriweather Lewis and William Clark reached the Pacific Ocean in late 1805, their supplies had run dangerously low, including their salt supply. Salt, used not only to flavor meat but also to preserve it, was extremely important to the health of the expedition. Three of Lewis and Clark's men traveled to a site on the coast near present-day Seaside, Oregon to set up a small salt-works, boiling ocean water in a series of large kettles and then scraping the resulting salt crust off of the sides. In this manner, the men eventually collected about twenty gallons of salt before Lewis and Clark decided the supply was sufficient for the return journey. In 1910, the property containing the remains of the cairns was deeded to the Oregon Historical Society. In 1955, replica salt cairns were built at the site by the Lions Club to commemorate the expedition's activities.

Date: 1910

Correspondence from Charles M. Wollenberg (by Bertha S. Underhill) to Toyoji Inouye regarding public assistance

Date: July 12, 1945

Office Memorandum from Lois Craig to Martha A. Chickering, et al. regarding travel

Date: April 6, 1942

Apple

Date: 1887

Caption: "Gatling gun," c. 1905. three unidentified men and William McCarthy (third from right) stand near a Gatling gun. The Gatling gun was an early rapid-fire, crank-turned weapon first used during combat in the Civil War. Developed in 1861 by Dr. Richard J. Gatling, the weapon was commonly used during the late nineteenth century before being superseded by newer, more modern guns.

Date: 1905

Caption: "American Eagle in Yellowstone Museum," c. 1923. A taxidermized bald eagle perched on a branch, one of the exhibits at a museum housed within the Yellowstone Information Office.

Date: 1923

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Date: 1860