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Caption: "Union Pacific Bridge -- Portland, OR.," c. 1915. Built in 1912, this through-truss, double-decker vertical lift bridge crosses the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. See also 96-07-08-alb05-182.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Presidio Nursery," shows gardens and "Presidio" spelled out in flowers, San Francisco, c. 1907.

Date: 1907

Caption: "State of Washington" Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Ringling Museum -- Sarasota -- Florida, June 28 1934." Entrance to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida's state art museum established by John and Mable Ringling in 1927. John was a promoter and part-owner of the famous Ringling Brothers Circus, along with four of his brothers. When John and Mable built a winter home in Sarasota in 1926, they also explored the possibility of establishing an art gallery on the same property. Architect John H. Phillips designed the building, which opened to the public in 1931. John Ringling willed the facility and the art collection to the state of Florida upon his death in 1936. The museum, now known simply as "The Ringling," is under the jurisdiction of the University of Florida.

Date: 6/28/1934

Caption: "The Mother Tree, Big Basin," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy posing with the Mother of the Forest, the tallest redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park at 329 feet high and 70 feet in circumference near the ground.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Hudson River," c. 1925. A train crosses high above the Hudson River over the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge. Buildings of the C.N. Arnold Co., a lumber company, sit on the bank of the river in the foreground. The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge first began operation in 1889. The tracks were destroyed by a fire in 1974, but the bridge was subsequently rebuilt, opening as the Walkway Over the Hudson (a pedestrian bridge) in 2003.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Russian River Healdsburg, Cal." William and Grace McCarthy (at far left) on wood bridge over the Russian River near Healdsburg. They are standing with three unidentified people.

Date: 1914-07

Caption: "Wreck on the Vallejo Napa Line." Photograph showing some of the train cars involved in a June 19, 1913 accident in which two trains of the San Francisco, Napa Valley and Calistoga Railroad collided head-on approximately 2.4 miles north of Vallejo. Ten passengers and three railroad employees were killed, and twenty-eight others injured.

Date: 1913-06-19

Caption: "Tallac." A resort in the area around Mount Tallac, near Lake Tahoe.

Date: 1927

Caption: "Presidio and Golden Gate," c. 1906, shows many Presidio buildings pictured in the foreground, with ships in the bay. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Date: 1906