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Caption: "Conservatory Golden Gate Park," c. 1910. Built in 1879, the Conservatory is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park, and the oldest municipal wooden conservatory in the country.

Date: 1910

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb06-078 with caption: "Harrold and Buff," c. 1906. A young child with a dog is seen standing near a fence at the McCarthy home in Watsonville.

Date: 1906

No Caption: c. 1915. Shows a view of Broadway in Los Angeles. On the right side of the street is Woodley Theatre, a vaudeville theater that opened in 1913.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Lake Louise Chateau - Alberta, Canada," c. 1935 shows the luxury hotel, originally built by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a base for outdoor enthusiasts in 1890. The hotel is located in Banff National Park.

Date: 1935

No Caption: The Cliff House, San Francisco, California, c. 1905. The Victorian structure shown here is the third iteration of the Cliff House, constructed in 1896. It was later destroyed by a fire, in 1907.

Date: 1905

No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.

Date: 1938

Caption: "OSTRICH FARM, Pasadena, California.," c. 1905. View of several ostriches in a corral at the Caswston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena. Opened by Edward Cawston in 1886, this was the first ostrich farm in the U.S. It became a popular tourist stop along the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway in the early twentieth century, where visitors could ride an ostrich, or be pulled by one in a light card. They could also buy merchandise made out of ostrich feathers, such as hats and boas. The farm closed in the mid-1930s.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Fort Stevens, Or.," c. 1910. View of buildings at Fort Stevens, part of the Three Fort Harbor Defense System protecting the mouth of the Columbia River from enemy incursion or attack (the other forts being Fort Columbia and Fort Canby, both in Washington). Built during the Civil War, the fort remained active until after World War II. In June 1942, Fort Stevens gained the dubious distinction of being the only military installation in the continental United States to come under enemy fire when a Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast and fired seventeen missiles at the fort. The missiles destroyed the backstop to the fort's baseball field, but otherwise did little harm. Fort Stevens was decommissioned in 1947. It was later turned over to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and currently is the site of an Oregon State Park.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Presidio Avenue. Entrance to Presidio," c. 1906. Gateway into the Presidio of San Francisco, bracketed by brick podiums topped by ornamental pinnacles. Three soldiers stand guard at the gate. 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

Summarative report on the WRA Educational Program including scope, employees, cost, and future goals

Date: March 1, 1944