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Caption: "You can drive your car into the lobby of the Hotel American. Note the ornamental ceiling and colonnades - Puebla, Mex."

Date: 1938

Caption: "Port Townsend Bicycle Club.," c. 1910. Seven unidentified men and women posing with bicycles. The bicycle made its first appearance in the Puget Sound area in the late 1870s. Within twenty years, thousands of enthusiasts had adapted the new mode of transportation. Such enthusiasts often formed clubs, such as the Queen City Good Roads Club, based in Seattle (south of Port Townsend). These clubs advocated, constructed, and helped to maintain pathways dedicated specifically to bicycle traffic. Ironically, the efforts made by the bicyclists to generally improve roadways contributed to the rise of another new mode of transportation -- the automobile.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Government exhibits of stuffed animals." Various mammals stuffed for display, including a tiger, moose, deer, and antelope, exhibited in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.

Date: 1905

Caption: "The harbor of Vancouver, B.C." c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Palofax [sic] St. Pensacola, Florida, June 21, 34." Street scene on Palafox Street in Pensacola. In the foreground the street is lined with trees, while a city center is visible in the distance.

Date: 6/21/1934

Caption: "250th C.A.N.G. at Glenwood," c. 1926. The California National Guard established its 250th Coast Artillery in 1926, in Santa Cruz County. This photograph shows several caterpillar-type vehicles alongside a rural road near Glenwood.

Date: 1926

Caption: "The Casino -- Agua Caliente, Mexico -- May 20, 34." View of the exterior of the casino at Agua Caliente Casino and Resort. Designed by Wayne McAllister, the resort opened in Tijuana in 1928. It closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.

Date: 5/20/1934

Caption: "California St. S.F." Shows the devastation from the 1906 earthquake and fires, along California Street in San Francisco, 1906.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Union Square & Dewey Monument," c. 1908. St. Francis Hotel at Union Square, with the Dewey Monument in the foreground (Robert I. Aitken, sculptor), which commemorated U.S. Admiral George Dewey's naval victory at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American War of 1898. The luxury hotel opened in 1904, and, fortunately, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. It was expanded in 1913, and 1972, making it one of the largest hotels in the city.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Yosemite Falls - View From Ledge Trail," c. 1917. Yosemite Falls in the distance, as seen from across the valley on the Ledge Trail above Half Dome Village. 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