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Caption: "Central Street, Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Population 51,000," c. 1935 shows a busy street scene in Phoenix, Arizona.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Sulfur Springs," c. 1915, shows a large body of water, likely fed by sulfur springs, at an unidentified location.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Clife [sic] House S.F.," c. 1908-1912. View of San Francisco's Cliff House overlooking Ocean Beach. The building shown here is the fourth iteration of the Cliff House, a neo-classical design built after a fire destroyed the Victorian structure previously at the site in 1907. Reconstruction of the iconic restaurant began in 1908, and a new Cliff House opened in 1909 (the building in this photograph). This neo-classical building was extensively remodeled in the 1930s.

Date: 1908

No caption, c. 1910. View of Bisby's Spiral Airship, located in an amusement "zone" known as The Pike in Long Beach, California. One of the earliest suspended roller coasters, this thrill ride operated from about 1902 to 1915. Gondolas suspended below the rails carried riders up a lift to the top of a tower, after which they followed a spiral track back down to the loading area.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Capitol Building of New York State, Albany, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1934." New York State's Capitol Building was constructed between 1867 and 1899. The initial architect, Thomas Fuller, designed the first floor in a Classical or Romanesque style. He was replaced by Leopold Eidlitz and Henry Hobson Richardson, who designed the next two floors in a Renaissance style. The final architect to preside over the project was Isaac G. Perry, who completed the building in a Victorian-Romanesque style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1979.

Date: 9/7/1934

Caption: "Venice," c. 1911. View of canal and bridge in Venice, California, with amusement "zone" in the distance. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, in 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.

Date: 1911

No caption. Grace McCarthy siting in a horse-drawn buggy in front of the McCarthy home in Watsonville, c. 1906.

Date: 1906

No Caption: A view of the reconstruction on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake and fires, c. 1907.

Date: 1907

Caption: "16th. St. Denver," c. 1923. A bustling scene of cars and people on Denver's 16th street.

Date: 1923

No caption, c. 1906. Unidentified girl sitting on rocking horse or hobby horse, in a park or garden.

Date: 1906