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Caption, c. 1905. Sixteen camels pull the Ringling Brothers Egyptian Circus Wagon down a street in Santa Rosa in this photograph. The Ringling Brothers Circus first came to Santa Rosa in 1903. The traveling circus became an annual event in the town for the next two decades.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Laredo, Texas - Highway entrance to Mexico at International bridge - U.S. Customs office on left. April 12, 1938."

Date: 1938

Caption: "Colonades [sic] - San Diego Exposition," 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Feather River Canyon," c. 1915, shows the Feather River Canyon trestle.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Street Scene -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Street-level view of an unidentified busy street in Los Angeles.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Ordnance Corps," c. 1905. A group photograph of the Ordnance Corps at the Benicia Arsenal. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps was to supply combat weapons and ammunition to U.S. Army forces on the west coast of the United States.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Stockton Asylum." Stockton, California, c. 1906. The Stockton Insane Asylum was established in 1851, completed in 1853, and was the first public mental health hospital in California. It remained a functioning state hospital until 1995.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Picnic at Fishcamp," c. 1908, shows William McCarthy (third from right) with unidentified people posing for a photograph at Fishcamp in Mariposa County.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Chino Calif.," c. 1915. Unidentified child pulling another unidentified, smaller child in a wagon in front of a Craftsman-style residence.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Refugee Hut," shows four people standing in the doorway of a hut built after the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

Date: 1906