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Caption: "California Maritime Academy, Carquinez Straits." Design for future development. Color drawing by Alfred Eichler; built this way. Project for Department of Education.
Date: 1945
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Caption: "Indians crude way of obtaining water for home use - Vallecillo, Mexico," 1938, shows a Mexican man in an oxen-driven cart filling a pail with water from a river, while three boys watch from the shore in Vallecillo, Mexico.
Date: 1938
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No caption. Undated clippings from unidentified pamphlets or newspapers. The first describes the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, while the second provides details regarding the Golden Gate Bridge.
Date: Undated
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Caption: "The China Clippers [sic] First Start Across the Pacific Ocean. Nov. 22, 1935." View of the China Clipper, a Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat constructed for Pan American Airways in 1935. One of the largest planes of its time, the China Clipper flew the first transpacific commercial airmail flight between San Francisco and Manila in the Philippines. The China Clipper was destroyed in a crash ten years later, in January 1945, at the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Date: 11/22/1935
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Caption: "Street Car Strike," c. 1907. San Francisco's street car union workers called for a strike after their request to be paid three dollars per eight- hour work day was declined. At the start of the strike, two strikers were shot by strike breakers and many more causalities were reported. Hundreds of passengers were injured during the strike due to inexperienced operators, and twenty-five of those passengers died as a result. In total, the upheaval resulted in thirty-one causalities.
Date: 1907
