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Caption: "Old Otomie [sic]Indian lady and her son. She is spinning twine from Maguey fiber onto a spool as she trudges the highway barefooted, Zimipan, Mexico."

Date: 1938

The image is of a lithograph that depicts the various routes to California from Eastern United States via Panama and Cape Horn.

Date: 1849

Caption: "Torrey Pines, San Diego.," c. 1905. William McCarthy stands with a group of unidentified friends or family in this photograph, framed within the branches of what appears to be a Torrey pine tree. William is far to the left, sporting a moustache.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Pleasant Beach, Wash.," c. 1908-1912. View from across a bay in Puget Sound, looking toward the Pleasant Beach Hotel. Built before the turn of the twentieth century, this resort hotel featured forty rooms, a bowling alley, billiards room, swimming pool, and a pavilion. The resort came to be known as the "Coney Island" of Puget Sound.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Filter Presses and Packing Room Gang," c. 1906, shows a group of unidentified men posing for a photograph in the packing room at the Crockett Sugar Mill.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Towering Trees and Cliffs - Yosemite," c. 1917. View of a granite mountain top as viewed through trees on a neighboring peak.

Date: 1917

No Caption: A Yellowstone National Park decal, 1935, octagon-shaped, green and white, with an image of a buffalo in the foreground and mountain range in the background.

Date: 1935

Caption: "6" Howitzer," c. 1906. A piece of artillery characterized by a relatively short barrel, used for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities.

Date: 1906

Caption: "The Jim Walsh Family. Aug. 30, 193 [sic]." Jim Walsh (at left), his wife, and three children posing for a photograph in front of a covered patio.

Date: 8/30/1934

Caption: "Scene in Niles Canyon," c. 1915-1920. Shows a railroad trestle over a creek in Niles Canyon, in Alameda County (the San Francisco Bay Area).

Date: 1920