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Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses at the entrance to what William McCarthy labeled a "wigwam," a dwelling of the Ahwahnechee people. The Ahwahnechee (a Native American tribe who traditionally occupied the Yosemite Valley) called the dwellings o-chum. Pine branches were arranged in a tee-pee-like shape and then covered with layered slabs of cedar bark.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1935. William and Grace McCarthy pose at the entrance to what William labeled a "wigwam," a dwelling of the Ahwahnechee people. The Ahwahnechee (a Native American tribe who traditionally occupied the Yosemite Valley) called the dwellings o-chum. Pine branches were arranged in a tee-pee-like shape and then covered with layered slabs of cedar bark.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Entrance - Mariposa Grove- Yosemite," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy stands with an automobile near the entrance to Maripose Grove in Yosemite National Park. The Mariposa Grove, near Wawona, is the largest grove of Giant Sequoia trees in Yellowstone National Park. It also includes two of the thirty largest Giant Sequoias in the world.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Hopland-Clear Lake Highway," c. 1925. Birdseye view of the Hopland Grade (also called the Hopland Pass), now part of California State Route 175 connecting Hopland (Mendocino County) with Lakeport on Clear Lake, in Lake County. The road, built in the early 1920s, is sometimes called the "crookedest road in California."
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Morro Castle -- Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 1934." Morro Castle, also called Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro, has guarded the entrance to Havana's harbor since 1589. Various additions have been built over the years, including the Faro Castillo del Morro Lighthouse, added in 1846. Morro Castle currently houses the offices of the Havana Harbormaster, and operates as a museum.
Date: 7/4/1934
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Caption: "Ferry Boat Newark." c. 1910, shows the Southern Pacific's ferryboat Newark in the San Francisco Bay.
Date: 1910
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No Caption: The Fountain of Energy (A. Stirling Calder, sculptor), with surrounding statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
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No Caption: The Dutch Windmill at the western edge of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "City Hall Ruins." Photograph of the former San Francisco City Hall building, destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Date: 1906
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No Caption: Pedestrians seen walking towards the entrance to the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
Date: 1915
