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Caption: "Cliff House #2." View of the third Cliff House, of Victorian-style architecture, that was built on that site in San Francisco, c. 1906. The original Cliff House was built in 1858. The second was built in 1863 and was destroyed by fire on Christmas day in 1894. The third Victorian- style Cliff House (pictured) was completed in 1896, and although it survived the 1906 earthquake and fires, it burned to the ground in 1907. A fourth Cliff House was then built with steel-reinforced concrete and opened in 1909.

Date: 1906

No Caption: Photograph of part of a print from the Illustrated London News, titled "A Modern Method of Coast Defense: The Arrangement of an Up-To-Date Battery." See also 96-07-08-alb05-094.

Date: 1910-09-03

General Sherman

Date: 1865

Unidentified African-American woman and several children posing on the porch of a wood-plank home. *Please Note:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.

Date: 6/17/1934

Caption: "State Sign, Between Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyoming. Oct. 1, 1934." William McCarthy standing next to an informational road sign in Wyoming, noting the location as being along the U.S.'s primary Continental Divide.

Date: 10/1/1934

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-140 with caption: "Fort Columbia, Wash." c. 1910. Fort Columbia, built between 1896 and 1904, sits on Chinook Point overlooking the Columbia River. It is part of the Three Fort Harbor Defense System protecting the mouth of the river from enemy incursion or attack (the other forts being Oregon's Fort Stevens and Washington's Fort Canby). Fort Columbia was decomissioned after World War II, and is now the site of a Washington State Park.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Battery Kinzie firing 'Trial Shots' Aug 1, 1912" and "No 10 Near Pt. Townsend, WA." Battery Kinzie was a coastal defense battery designed to include two 12-inch disappearing guns, installed at Fort Worden. Construction began in 1908. It was turned over to the U.S. Army's Coast Artillery Corps in 1912 for use in defending the entrance to Puget Sound. This postcard shows one of the 12-inch guns firing, with several unidentified men standing nearby holding their hands to their ears.

Date: 8/1/1912

Red Clover

Date: 1884

Caption: "Coast Defense." Photograph of part of a print from the Illustrated London News, titled "A Modern Method of Coast Defense: The Arrangement of an Up-To-Date Battery." See also 96-07-08-alb08-230.

Date: 1910-09-03

Caption: "S.S. Santa Rosa." Wreck of the S.S. Santa Rosa off Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County. The steamship ran aground on July 6, 1911. Unable to break free, the turbulent waters eventually cracked the ship in half. All two hundred passengers got to shore alive, the only fatalities coming when four sailors were accidentally thrown out of a lifeboat by rough seas while attempting to establish a land line to stabilize the wreck.

Date: 1911