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Old Gov. Java Coffee

Date: 1873

The California

Date: 1895

Caption: "New Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. July 29, 1934." View of central, domed portion and wing of the National Museum of Natural History, one of ten Smithsonian Institute museums along National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum opened in 1910.

Date: 7/29/1934

Caption: "Squaw in Jail, Tiajuana [sic], Mexico.," c. 1910. View of a jail in Tijuana, Mexico. An elderly woman is seated behind the bars of one of the windows.

Date: 1910

Caption: "American Eagle in Yellowstone Museum," c. 1923. A taxidermized bald eagle perched on a branch, one of the exhibits at a museum housed within the Yellowstone Information Office.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Rocky Mountains Near State Line East of Salt Lake City. Trees are Scarce in the Rockies. Oct. 2, 1934." Automobile parked along a road, with train tracks on one side and dramatic, steep, rocky bluffs on the other.

Date: 10/2/1934

Caption: "Crowd Watching Chrysler Automobile Maneuvers. Chicago Fair. Sept. 17, 1934." Fairgoers pack the stands at a demonstration of the capabilities of Chrysler automobiles on a track created as part of the Chrysler complex built for the Exposition. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."

Date: 9/17/1934

Lone Fisherman

Date: 1879

Francis Biggy's Hair Restorer

Date: 1894

No Caption. William McCarthy posing for a photograph in front of a pine tree, c. 1908.

Date: 1908