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Caption: "The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y [sic], Aug. 4, 1934." This photograph shows the Manhattan skyline, as well as the Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan Island. The park was named for the artillery batteries that used to protect the city and its harbor from this location.
Date: 8/4/1934
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No Caption: 1935. The Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, named for the Persian mystic, Zoroaster, was an unusual and controversial attraction that featured partially nude men and women performing as nudists. Exposition visitors were charged twenty-five cents to watch the "nudists" perform ceremonies and other activities. Today, the sunken Zoro Garden in Balboa Park is a butterfly garden.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "The Alameda of Presidio," c. 1906. View of a dirt or graveled drive, lined by cannonballs, leading to a small roundabout. The Alameda served as the principle gateway into the Presidio of San Francisco from the 1860s to 1895.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Placing the Bandarillias [sic]." Two images pasted into the photograph album next to each other, both showing bulls in a bullring. In both photographs, banderilleros are attempting to place banderillas (short barbed sticks) in each bull's shoulders.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Vendome San Jose," c. 1910, was a luxury hotel in San Jose that opened in 1889. It was purchased by a real estate syndicate in 1930 and subsequently demolished in order to subdivide the property into lots for residential housing.
Date: 1910
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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
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Caption: "Hotel Vendome," c. 1910, was a luxury hotel in San Jose that opened in 1889. It was purchased by a real estate syndicate in 1930 and subsequently demolished in order to subdivide the property into lots for residential housing. See also 96-07-08-alb03-100 and 96-07-08-alb05-115.
Date: 1910
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Review of War Services in Tulare County; Sections: Civilian War Assistance, Resettlement Assistance
Date: January 15, 1946
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Caption: "San Diego State College." Design by H. S. Hazen; drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.
Date: undated
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Caption: "Department of Motor Vehicles, Highway Patrol - Marysville." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for California Highway Patrol.
Date: 1938
