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Caption: "Fairmount Ruins." Shows the damage from the 1906 earthquake fire to the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco, 1906. Although construction was mostly finished in 1906, the advent of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of that year damaged the hotel's interior and delayed opening until 1907. It was the first hotel in what is now the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. In 1945, the San Francisco hotel was host to an international conference that culminated in the formation of the United Nations.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Portion of Nob Hill," c. 1906. A portion of Nob Hill, with the Fairmont Hotel on the right side of the photograph, reveals the destruction from the 1906 earthquake and fires.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Highway - Crater Lake Natl. Park to Medford, Oregon," c. 1935.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Street Scene -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Rooftop view of an unidentified street in Los Angeles.

Date: 1910

No Caption: " Court of Abundance, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Grand Canyon -- Yellowstone," c. 1920. Scenic overview of the first large canyon along Yellowstone River below Yellowstone Falls, in Yellowstone National Park.

Date: 1920

Caption: "California Street looking to the Ferry," 1906. A view of the destruction along California street after the earthquake and fire.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Parliament Building, Victoria, B.C." c. 1935. Constructed in the Neo-baroque, Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival architectural style (Francis Rattenbury, architect), the British Columbia Parliament Buildings were completed in 1897, and are home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

Date: 1935

Caption: "Sentinel Hotel," c. 1917. The Sentinel Hotel at Yosemite Village, with a granite cliff in the background and the Merced River in the foreground. Construction of the hotel began in 1876, and at the turn of the century it was the only hotel operating in the valley. Increased attendance as the twentieth century progressed resulted in the construction of other tourist areas such as Curry Village, and the Sentinel gradually became obsolete. The Sentinel and the complex of buildings that had grown up around it were torn down in the late 1930s.

Date: 1917

Caption: "Sugar Cane and Cotton Fields -- Florida, June 23, 34." A sugar cane field (at left) borders a cotton field (at right) in this photograph.

Date: 6/23/1934