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Caption: "Venice, Calif," c. 1911. Grace McCarthy and an unidentified woman standing on a bridge over Lion Canal in Venice, California. In 1905, Abbot Kinney built a series of canals as part of a development project along Santa Monica Beach, hoping to recreate the look and feel of Italy's iconic "Floating City" in southern California. Called Ocean Park at first, gondoliers sailed boats under elegant bridges such as the one shown in this photograph, in an effort to attract businesses, residents, and investors. In 1911, the name officially changed to Venice. By 1929, however, many of the canals had been filled in to create roadways, and those canals that remained fell into disrepair. A revitalization movement in the early 1990s has restored some of the canals, and made the area a desirable residential neighborhood.

Date: 1911

Caption: "Tuolumne Meadows." Meadow area along the Tuolumne River in the eastern portion of Yosemite National Park, with mountains in the background. Tuolumne Meadows is recognized as one of the largest alpine meadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Date: 1927

Caption: "State University -- Eugene Oregon," c. 1915. Shows both Deady and Villard Halls on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. Deady Hall was built in the 1870s, while Villard Hall was constructed in the 1880s.

Date: 1915

Caption: "12" Gun, Gun Drill." A view of several unidentified men conducting a gun drill in a coastal defense battery at an unidentified location.

Date: Undated

No Caption: A Yellowstone National Park decal, 1935, octagon-shaped, green and white, with an image of a buffalo in the foreground and mountain range in the background.

Date: 1935

No caption. View of the western, suspension span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, looking toward San Francisco. The photograph was likely taken from a point on either Treasure Island or Yerba Buena Island.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Swift Current Lake - Glacier National Park, the Garden Wall and McCloud Mountain in the distance," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Washington Street, Portland, Oregon," c. 1905. A street scene with electric car, several storefronts, and pedestrians milling about.

Date: 1905

Caption: "Del Mar," c. 1915-1916. View from road adjacent to the hotel. The Stratford Inn (which opened in 1909) became the Hotel Del Mar in 1926. It was torn down in 1969, and subsequently rebuilt in the 1980s.

Date: 1915

No caption, c. 1890. Photograph portrait of William McCarthy as a young boy.

Date: 1890