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Caption: "Saltair Pavilion - Great Salt Lake," c.1923. Interior of the Saltair Pavilion on Utah's Great Salt Lake. Constructed in 1893 and designed by Richard K.A. Kletting, the Saltair resort set out to be the Western counterpart of Coney Island. The resort was a popular spot for Mormon families, only fifteen miles from Salt Lake City and overseen by Church leaders. The Church sold the building in 1906. It was later destroyed by fire in 1925, but a second pavilion was quickly built.

Date: 1923

Caption: "State St. Salt Lake City. Capitol Bldg. in the Distance, Oct. 4, 1934." Street scene, with a wide road stretching toward the Utah State Capitol Building in the distance. Trolley tracks appear on the roadway, with wires overhead.

Date: 10/4/1934

No caption. William McCarthy and an unidentified woman and boy posing in and around a small go-cart in front of the John Shields residence, in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

Date: 1934

Caption: "Field Artillery Target Practice. Gigling, Cal.," c. 1915, shows men in military gear firing a large cannon at the Gigling Field Artillery Range in Monterey, California, which, along with the surrounding area, was redesignated Fort Ord in 1940.

Date: 1915

Caption: "R.R. Grades in the Siskiyou Mountains -- Scene Taken from the Track Above," c. 1910. Mountain scene in northern California or southern Oregon, looking down on railroad tracks, with a train snaking its way through the terrain.

Date: 1910

Caption: "City of Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 1934." View of Havana taken from across a harbor, or other stretch of ocean. The dome of El Capitolio (then Cuba's Capitol) can be seen just to the left of the photograph's center.

Date: 7/4/1934

Caption: "Sunset Lake - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Yellowstone National Park's Sunset Lake is a shallow thermal pool in the Black Sand Basin. Its name is derived from the yellow and orange bands of bacteria and algae at its edges.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Botanical Garden Building - San Diego Exposition," 1935, shows the Botanical Building and Conservatory with reflecting pool that featured lilies, begonias, fuchsias, and a variety of ferns at the California-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Fillmore St," c. 1908. A view of San Francisco's Fillmore Street at night, which has been decorated with garlands of electric lights along the length of the street.

Date: 1908

Caption: "San Jose City Hall," c. 1905, (Theodore Lenzen, Architect), was built in 1889 with a budget of $150,000. The brick and terracotta structure was demolished and replaced in 1958.

Date: 1905