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Caption: "Mountain Scenery - Yellowstone," c. 1923. A domed mountain dominates this photograph, with sheer rocky cliffs and other geologic formations on its flanks.

Date: 1923

Caption: "N.S.G.W. Delegates to Grand Lodge, Santa Barbara." Founded in 1875, the Native Sons of the Golden West is a fraternal society limited to native-born Californians.

Date: Undated

One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.

Date: 1934

Caption: "USS Connecticut, Admiral Evans," c. 1908. View of the USS Connecticut, with an inset circular photograph of Admiral Evans. The USS Connecticut was commissioned on September 29, 1906 as the most advanced ship in the U.S. Navy. Because the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 stipulated that older battleships would be disposed of, the Connecticut was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1923.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Sierra Summit Scene - Tioga Pass," c. 1917. Patches of snow litter the walls of Tioga Pass, while a small stream cascades down the hillside. California State Route 120 runs through the pass, providing an eastern entry into Yosemite National Park.

Date: 1917

Caption: "Avenue of Progress," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-080.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Summit of Vernal Falls," c. 1917. The Merced River begins its cascade over Vernal Fall in this photograph.

Date: 1917

Caption: "Cuba," shows the Cuban Pavilion at the Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-136.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Cascades - Yellowstone," c. 1923. View of Kepler Cascades, a waterfall on the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Church of El Carmen - in a crypt beneath are a number of mummies, Mexico City."

Date: 1938