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No Caption: White ribbon commemorating Seattle Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Several buildings constructed for the exposition now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.

Date: 9/6/1909

Caption: "Steamer Damara. On Rocks at Fort Point." On October 8, 1910, the British steam ship Damara, loaded with a cargo of barley bound for England, ran onto the rocks below Fort Point at the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. It took eleven days to refloat the ship.

Date: 1910

No caption, c. 1935. William McCarthy on the steep trail to the summit of the iconic Half Dome, in the Yosemite Valley. The cables used to assist hikers follow a route laid down by George Anderson, who reached the summit in 1875.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Bullion Bend Monument," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of an automobile, near a stone monument. Bullion Bend, located between Pollock Pines and Whitehall in the historic Highway 50 corridor, was the scene of a stagecoach robbery in 1864 in which silver bullion was stolen by robbers claiming to need the money in order to support the Confederate Army.

Date: 1920

Caption: "Port Townsend Bicycle Club.," c. 1910. Seven unidentified men and women posing with bicycles. The bicycle made its first appearance in the Puget Sound area in the late 1870s. Within twenty years, thousands of enthusiasts had adapted the new mode of transportation. Such enthusiasts often formed clubs, such as the Queen City Good Roads Club, based in Seattle (south of Port Townsend). These clubs advocated, constructed, and helped to maintain pathways dedicated specifically to bicycle traffic. Ironically, the efforts made by the bicyclists to generally improve roadways contributed to the rise of another new mode of transportation -- the automobile.

Date: 1910

No caption. Reverse of a souvenir ticket for the "Official Pedestrian Day" on May 27, 1937, held as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. The celebrations occupied an entire week, kicked off by Pedestrian Day, when more 200,000 people were allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on foot or on roller skates, the day before the bridge opened for vehicular traffic.

Date: 5/27/1937

Unidentified African-American woman, several children, and a dog posing on and around 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: "Watervliet Arsenal Entrance," c. 1925. A tree-lined driveway to the Watervliet Arsenal Entrance. The Arsenal was founded in 1813 in Watervliet, New York, to support the War of 1812. Today the Arsenal houses the U.S. Army's Benét Laboratories, part of the Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center.

Date: 1925

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

One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.

Date: 1934