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Caption: "Capitol Building, Washington, D. C. July 23, 1934." View of the domed United States Capitol, housing both the Senate and House of Representatives. Constructed between 1793 and 1800 and designed by architect William Thornton, the building has undergone several expansions, including the addition of the wedding-cake-style dome in the 1850s.

Date: 7/23/1934

Caption: "Street Scene, San Jose," c. 1910. A horse-drawn carriage and several pedestrians can be seen in the distance along a palm-lined street in San Jose.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Jones's [sic] Beach Tower, New York. Aug. 26 1934." The large tower in the center of this photograph was a 188-foot-tall water tower in Jones Beach, built in 1930 in imitation of the Italianate-style bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The Long Island State Park Commission began to develop what is now the Jones Beach area for a park in the 1920s, dredging enough sand to connect several of the barrier islands south of Long Island and raising the elevation of the islands by fourteen feet to create one large park. It opened to the public in 1929. It is now a state park, with an estimated six million visitors each year.

Date: 8/26/1934

Caption: "Brothers Light House" and "Scenes on the Sacramento River.," c. 1920. Shows the island and structures associated with the East Brother Island Lighthouse, lit in 1874 in San Rafael Bay near Richmond, California. The light was automated in 1969. After restoration in the early 1980s, the lighthouse now operates as a bed-and-breakfast.

Date: 1920

No caption. Several unidentified men and a piece of heavy artillery at an unidentified location.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Casino -- Tiajuana [sic]," c. 1915-1916. Wet, rainy scene showing a building dominated by two large towers at the entrance.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Portion of Interior. Fort Point.," c. 1906. View of arched colonnades on ground and middle floors of Fort Point, and an upper tier with barbettes for the future installation of heavy artillery coastal defense weapons. The facilities at Fort Point were part of an effort by the U.S. government to protect the Golden Gate, entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Built between 1853-1861, the fort included emplacements for 141 guns but never fired a weapon in defense of the Bay. Its name was officially changed in 1882 to Fort Winfield Scott, but in 1886 the fort was officially downgraded to a sub-post of the San Francisco Presidio and the name discontinued. It was resurrected in 1912, with the establishment of a coastal artillery fortification at the Presidio, called, once again, Fort Winfield Scott.

Date: 1906

Caption: "State St. - Chicago," c. 1923. A busy street scene with people, automobiles, and trollies.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Avenda [sic] Morelos, Monterey [sic], Mexico," shows a busy street scene on Avenida (Avenue) Morelos, Monterrey, Mexico.

Date: 1938

Caption: "Devil On Wheels," c. 1925. Unidentified person in a devil costume posing on a bicycle in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

Date: 1934