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Caption: "Column of the Setting Sun," or, Descending Night (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

No caption, c. 1920. Scene along the Sacramento River, showing a small two-masted ship carrying freight.

Date: 1920

Caption: "United States Field Piece." Shows a Civil War-era large gun and carriage at an unidentified location.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Capitola Calif," c. 1910. Grace McCarthy is seen standing in front of a large building in Capitola.

Date: 1910

No caption, c. 1915. Several unidentified people posing in two automobiles in front of a residence in Concord, California.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Ocean Beach - S.F," c. 1910, shows a large group of sunbathers on San Francisco's Ocean Beach.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Tybee Beach, Savannah, Georgia, July 14, 1934." Beach scene with a small crowd of unidentified people enjoying the ocean waves and strolling in the sand. The large Tybrisa Pavilion, set on a wood pier, extends into the water. Tybee Beach is one of several beaches in Tybee Island, a town on an island of the same name located across the river from Savannah. The island became a popular tourist spot between the Civil War and the mid-twentieth century, particularly after the Central of Georgia Railway constructed a line to the island. To encourage tourists, the railroad built Tybrisa Pavilion in 1891. It featured a large dance floor that became popular on the Big Band circuit, but was destroyed by fire in 1967.

Date: 7/14/1934

Caption: "Echo Park [sic] Los Angeles," c. 1906. Unidentified man leaning on a railing made of tree branches, with palm trees and other vegetation in the background. Echo Lake Park opened in 1895. The lake was originally created in 1868 to support the operations of a mill. The mill, however, closed seven years later. The site was later selected for conversion to a city park.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Portals of the Past," c. 1915. A monument in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, on the shores of Lloyd Lake, consisting of a white marble archway and columns. The archway was originally part of the Nob Hill mansion belonging to railroad tycoon Alban Towne. The mansion was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, but the entryway still stood. It was moved to the shore of Lloyd Lake in 1909, as a memorial to the pre-1906 city.

Date: 1915

No Caption: c. 1935. Pictured are vehicles driving through the famous Wawona Tunnel Tree, a giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tree's tunnel was cut in 1881 as a tourist attraction. In 1969, the tree fell during a severe winter storm. Before it fell, the ancient tree measured 234 ft. high, twenty-six ft. in diameter, and was approximately 2,100 years old.

Date: 1935