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No Caption: Court of the Universe, with arch, colonnades, and statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Aimee McPherson's Angeles Temple- Los Angeles," c. 1935. Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for her theatrical sermons and claims of healing the sick, and for founding the Foursquare Church.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Benicia Arsenal," c. 1905. Overview shot of the Benicia Arsenal. William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops, from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Detail of Tower." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1930. This was one of the first border stations and was situated in desert country; its purpose was to provide a stopping place for inspection of motor traffic coming into California in order to enforce quarantine against insect infestation of California agricultural products. Project for Department of Agriculture.
Date: 1930
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Caption: "R.R. Trestle -- Siskiyou Mountains," c. 1910. Train trestle in the Siskiyou Mountains of northern California or southern Oregon.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Old State Capitol-Benicia," c. 1918, shows the Benicia State Capitol building, built in 1852, the third location of the state capital from February 1853 to February 1854, before it was moved permanently to Sacramento. The historic building was listed as a California State Historic Landmark in 1935, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Today the site is known as the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park.
Date: 1918
