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Pacific Congress Water

Date: 1868

Old Kentucky Mountain Bells

Date: 1892

No Caption: A section of a tourist informational brochure describing the road from Monterrey to Victoria.

Date: 1938

Correspondence from Mike Masaoka to Martha A. Chickering; Attachments: A Resolution (FF3729_56_005c), The Japanese American Creed (F3729_56_005d), A Declaration of Policy by the Japanese American Citizens League (F3729_56_005e); see also Response to Correspondence from JACL (F3729_56_004)

Date: December 31, 1941

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

Date: 1915

Caption: "Government Exhibit -- Portland Exposition." Exhibit of various types of heavy ordnance shells, including armor piercing shells as well as torpedoes. The exhibit was located in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries. See also 96-07-08-alb08-159.

Date: 1905

Caption: "The Man with the Hoe," c. 1915. Unidentified, young child posing in front of a row of corn with hoe and oversized hat.

Date: 1915

Caption: "U.S.S. California," c. 1906. This photograph shows the second U.S. Navy ship to bear the Golden State's name. Launched in 1904 and commissioned in 1907, this Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser served in the Pacific fleet. Her name was changed in 1914 to the USS San Diego, in order to free up the name for a new, Tennessee-class battleship. The USS San Diego went on to serve in both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets during World War I, until being sunk off the coast of New York by a German mine in 1918, with a loss of six lives.

Date: 1906

Crystal Borax

Date: 1898

Caption: "Chief Manitou of Taos N. M. - Manitou Soda Springs," c. 1923. Grace McCarthy, wearing a Native American headdress and beaded blanket, stands next to a smiling Pedro Cajete in traditional dress. Mr. Cajete, better known to many as Chief Manitou, was a Native American of the Tewa tribe near Santa Fe, New Mexico, who was hired to promote tourism in the Manitou Springs/Colorado Springs area of Colorado. He often sold trinkets and posed for photographs with tourists near the mouth of Manitou Cave, resulting in his moniker Chief Manitou.

Date: 1923