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Caption: "Niagara Falls, Sept. 10, 1934." View of a portion of the iconic Niagara Falls straddling the border between Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York.

Date: 9/10/1934

No caption: Grace McCarthy (standing, second from right), with several unidentified adults and children posing for photograph in front of a small house with a hillside of crops in the distance, and an automobile in the foreground, in Solano County, c. 1910 - 1915.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Steamers DAKOTA and MINNESOTA at the Great Northern Docks, Length each 670 feet and Tonnage Each 30,000. The Largest steamers in the World. Also the Japanese Steamer IYO Maru, length 460 feet Tonnage 7000. Seattle Wash.," c. 1905. This postcard shows a view of wharf facilities at Seattle, with three steamships and a train.

Date: 1905

No caption, c. 1930. Football stadium filled with fans for a game, with a marching band on the field at the lower center of the photograph. The stadium is unidentified, but may be University of California, Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium, built in 1923.

Date: 1930

Caption: "Zion Canyon - Zion National Park - view from Temple of Sinawava," c. 1935. The Temple of Sinwava, a massive natural amphitheater marks the beginning of Zion Canyon. A paved trail following the Virgin River upstream leads through ever narrowing sandstone canyons to the Zion Narrows.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Agua Caliente Mexico, May 20, 34." View of an elaborate large arch over a roadway, pointing the way to Hotel Agua Caliente in Tijuana. The Agua Caliente Casino and Resort Hotel, designed by Wayne McAllister, opened in Tijuana in 1928. The resort closed only a few years later, in 1935, when Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas outlawed gambling.

Date: 5/20/1934

Caption: "Guard mount of the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry, at Fort Huachuca, Aug -- Taken from life, McNally, 1909." A photograph of a drawing of seven men of the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, apparently conducting military maneuvers.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Court House, Port Townsend, Wash.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Port Townsend, Washington. Built the early 1890s and designed by W. A. Ritchie, the Romanesque-style building features a 124-foot clock tower, red bricks from St. Louis, and sandstone from Alaska.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Coronado Tent City.," c. 1910. Beach scene near the Coronado Hotel, showing groups of people enjoying a day at the sea shore. Established in 1900 for travelers who could not afford to stay in the resort hotel, the Coronado Tent City consisted of a grid of streets lined with furnished tents, near the sea shore. It also featured restaurants, a library, soda fountain, theater, bandstand, and other recreational facilities.

Date: 1910

Caption: "California," c, 1917. The McCarthy's vehicle is squeezed into the tunnel carved through the California Tree, a Giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park. The tunnel was cut through the tree in 1895 to facilitate travel on the road into the grove, and also as a tourist attraction. It is now the only living Giant Sequoia with a tunnel cut through it (so-called "tunnel trees"), the others having all fallen.

Date: 1917