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Caption: "Adams Springs -- Lake Co.," c. 1920. Buildings in Adams Springs, likely part of the resort that operated there in the first half of the twentieth century.

Date: 1920

Caption: "ESQUIMALT, Victoria, B. C.," c. 1908-1912. View of the Esquimalt area on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The photograph shows an ocean scene, possibly the Esquimalt Lagoon, with a ship in the middle distance and mountains in the far distance.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Ferry Boat Contra Costa," c. 1920. Built in 1914, the Contra Costa ferried locomotives and train cars across the Carquinez Strait between Benicia and Port Costa. The largest rail ferry ever built, the Contra Costa operated until the Benicia-Martinez Railroad Bridge opened in 1930. She made the crossing as many as 52 times in 24 hours.

Date: 1920

Caption: "Maricopa Point - Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Erroneously labeled, this photograph shows Grace McCarthy standing at the Powell Memorial on Powell Point, rather than Maricopa Point. The granite Powell Memorial commemorates John Wesley Powell, who explored the Colorado River in 1869 and 1872. The 1869 expedition included the first known descent of a person of European ancestry into the Grand Canyon.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Negro Shack, Savannah, Georgia, Chimney Leaning and Windows Minus the Glass. He has No Pane. He Should Worry, July 13, 1934." View of a small home, with a leaning chimney on one side. An unidentified man stands in the doorway.

Date: 7/13/1934

Caption: "Street Scene -- New Orleans, June 15, 34." Street scene with two lines of railroad tracks in the center of the photograph, running into the distance. Automobile traffic can be seen on the roads to either side of the tracks.

Date: 6/15/1934

Caption: "Statues of," shows the Fountain of Summer (Furio Piccirilli, sculptor), in the Court of the Four Seasons, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 97-07-08-alb01-099 and 96-07-08-alb03-032.

Date: 1915

No caption: Bird's eye view of New York City's Lower East Side and Two Bridges areas. The Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges span the East River in the right side of the photograph. See also 96-07-08-alb09-145.

Date: 1934

Caption: "Menerva [sic] Terrace," c. 1923. A prominent feature of the Mammoth Hot springs, the Minerva Terrace is a series of travertine terraces, formed from limestone. In this photograph, two unidentified men stand at the upper left, viewing the terrace.

Date: 1923

No caption, c. 1915-1920. Unidentified women standing at a summit point in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at elevation 7,630 feet. She is standing next to a road sign with directions and distances to Placerville and Lake Tahoe listed.

Date: 1920