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No caption, undated. A locomotive steams through the center of this photograph, in an unidentified location. This photograph was loose in the box with Album 11.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Promenade, Daytona Beach, Florida, July 9, 1934." Wide promenade along the beach at Daytona Beach, featuring a row of benches at the left (seaside) and covered seating areas on the right, with palm trees. Daytona Beach was created when the neighboring towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged in 1926. The area's beach was already well-known in both tourist and automobile circles

Date: 7/9/1934

Caption: "Sept. 20, 1934, The Big Studebaker Theatre. Capacity 80 People. Chicago Fair." This giant replica of a 1934 Studebaker Land Cruiser at the Century of Progress Exposition, made of plaster over a wood frame, sat above a small theater capable of sitting eighty people. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."

Date: 9/20/1934

Caption: "Art Museum - Los Angeles," c. 1915. Located in Exposition Park, the Beaux Arts building, opened in 1913, was originally known as the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. In 1963, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art moved to its current location on Wilshire Blvd. The Exposition Park facility became the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. After two years of renovation and restoration, it was reopened in 2009. See also 96-07-08-alb01-148.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Artillery Repair Truck," c. 1917. William McCarthy standing on a truck modified for field artillery repair, at Camp Kearney. Camp Kearney was established by the U.S. Army in 1917 just north of San Diego. The post was largely abandoned by the government in 1920, used as a military and civilian airfield. It did not see increased military service again until the 1930s.

Date: 1917

Affidavit of Ayako Nagahisa for Kijiro Shigaki in establishment of residency; Notarized by Loise Bottrell; See also: F3729_117_005, F3729_117_006

Date: June 28, 1945

H.H.H.

Date: 1882

Caption: "High School -- San Diego," c. 1910. By 1902 San Diego's schools had become overcrowded enough to warrant the construction of a new high school building. Completed in 1907 and designed by F.S. Allen, the new building was quickly nicknamed the "Grey Castle on the Hill" in reference to its castle-like parapets and towers. The Grey Castle was torn down in 1975 to make way for a facility in compliance with new earthquake safety laws.

Date: 1910

Horseman's Hope

Date: 1867

J. D. L.

Date: 1877