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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: "Resident Section -- Los Angeles," 1915-1916. The Bernheimer Brothers' mansion, built in 1914, can be seen on a hill in the center of the photograph, while another mansion is featured at the left side of the image.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Varied Industries Building." William McCarthy is seen standing near the Varied Industries Building, with the California Building in the background, at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Crockett Calif," c. 1905-1906. Street scene in Crockett, California, in Contra Costa County. American flags appear on the buildings and arched gateway over the street, implying a celebration is at hand.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Liberty Cap Rock - Mammoth Hot Springs," c. 1923. Liberty Cap Rock, a 40-foot tall dormant hot spring cone, is located in the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone National Park.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Santa Rosa," c. 1914. Part of a parade in Santa Rosa. The tall wagon in this photograph is pulled by a six-horse team, decked out in feathered plumes for the occasion.

Date: 1914

Caption: "Lilouette [sic] Falls," c. 1917. Illilouette Falls is a 370-foot waterfall in Yosemite located on the Illilouette Creek, a small tributary of the Merced River. The photograph was taken from a point above the summit of the falls.

Date: 1917

Summary by D. S. Myer of considerations for resettlement; Sections; Realignment of Responsibility for Financial Assistance, General Considerations, Determination of Eligibility and Amount of Grants, Approval or Disapproval of Applications, Payment of Grants, Assistance to Dependent Families, Services from Local Public Agencies

Date: May 30, 1945

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: "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