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No Caption: Fountain of Energy (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), with the Tower of Jewels at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: Pink ribbon commemorating Agricultural Days at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition (September 28 and 29, 1905). Held in Portland, Oregon, from June 1st to October 15th, 1905, the international exposition 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.
Date: 9/28/1905
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No caption. Obverse of a souvenir ticket for the "Official Pedestrian Day" on May 27, 1937, held as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. The celebrations occupied an entire week, kicked off by Pedestrian Day, when more 200,000 people were allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on foot or on roller skates, the day before the bridge opened for vehicular traffic.
Date: 5/27/1937
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No Caption: View of the Government Building, neighboring buildings, and Geyser Basin at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus. For instance, Geyser Basin became Drumheller Fountain, now at a slightly different location.
Date: 1909
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Caption: "Old State Capitol, Benicia," c. 1906. California's State Capitol moved several times in the first decade of statehood. This photograph shows the third building to serve as the Capitol building, in Benicia. The California State Legislature occupied the building from 1853-1854, until lack of accommodations for the legislators prompted the moving of the Capitol to Sacramento, in February 1854.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: shows the railroad tracks in the Feather River Canyon, c. 1915.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: The Tower of Jewels at night, at the Panama- Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Fallen Pillars, City Hall," shows the pillars of San Francisco City Hall that fell into the street as a result of the 1906 earthquake.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "San Francisco April 17, 1906. Center of Town." A bird's eye view of the city the day before the earthquake and fires.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Fountain of El Dorado" (Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor), within the West Colonnade of the Tower of Jewels at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
