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Caption: "Fort Casey Washington," c. 1909. Overview of several buildings at Fort Casey, located on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1897. Fort Casey was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The area is now a state park.
Date: 1909
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Caption: "St. Josephs Oratore [sic] - Montreal.," c. 1925. Unidentified man and Grace McCarthy pose in front of the St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, a Roman Catholic basilica and shrine. Work on the building began in 1924, and continued until 1967. Only the first level of the building had been completed when this photograph was taken.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Thelma Todd's Tavern - Santa Monica," c. 1935. Built in 1928 for Hollywood actress Thelma Todd, the restaurant overlooked the Pacific Ocean at Malibu. Todd lived in the home above the tavern, where she was found dead in December 1935, under mysterious circumstances.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Salt Lake City Street Scene.," c. 1916. Street scene in Salt Lake City, Utah. Flags and buntings suggest that the city was holding some kind of celebration at the time of the photograph. Several bicyclists appear at the photograph's right side.
Date: 1916
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Caption: "S.P. Depot, Third St. S.F.," c. 1915, shows the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot on Third and Townsend Streets in San Francisco. The mission revival architectural - style depot was built as a temporary structure in 1914 to serve the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. It remained in service for almost sixty years before it was demolished and replaced by a new station on 4th and King Streets in 1975-1976.
Date: 1915
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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
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Memorandum from Warren Olney to Earl Warren regarding the effect of incarceration on the agricultural industry
Date: February 19, 1942
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Caption: "Front Elevation - North." Design and drawing of Assembly Building, Governor's Hall, State Fair, Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, by Alfred Eichler. Built. The building was called Merriam Hall when Frank Merriam was governor (1934-1939). Project for Department of Finance - Fairs and Expositions.
Date: 1937
