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Caption: "Half Dome - Yosemite," c. 1917. The iconic granite Half Dome rises above the Yosemite Valley. This photograph appears to have been taken from a neighboring peak.

Date: 1917

Caption: "Call Building," c. 1906. The remains of the Call building after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Completed in 1898 and designed by civic leader Claus Spreckels, the Call building on the corner of 3rd and Market streets was one of the first skyscrapers in San Francisco, built to house the San Francisco Call newspaper offices. While the structure withstood the 1906 earthquake, the interior caught fire and sustained considerable damage. After major renovations, the building is today known as The Central Tower.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Agricultural Building, Washington, D.C. July 24, 1934." The Administration Building for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Jamie L. Whitten Building, sprawls across this photograph. The enormous Beaux-Arts style building, designed by Rankin, Kellogg, and Crane, was constructed between 1903 and 1930.

Date: 7/24/1934

Caption: "Central Park Scene N.Y.," c. 1925. New York City's Central Park, established in 1857, was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and landscape designer and architect Calvert Vaux. This photograph shows one of the water features within the park, crossed by a pedestrian bridge.

Date: 1925

No Caption: Canadian one-cent postage stamp commemorating the three-hundred year anniversary of the founding of Quebec in 1608. This stamp features portraits of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, early explorers of Canada. Cartier was the first to claim Canada for the French crown in 1534, while Champlain founded New Canada and Quebec City in 1608.

Date: 1908

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Date: 1881

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Date: 1883

Caption: "The Woolworth Towering Above All Others," c. 1925. Constructed between 1910 and 1920 and designed by architect Cass Gilbert, the Neo-Gothic building was once the tallest in the world at 792 feet. It appears at the left side of this photograph.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Del Monte.," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing with an automobile in front of the Hotel Del Monte. The second of three hotels built on the site, near Monterey, California, the building in this photograph was destroyed by fire in 1924. The property surrounding the hotel became known as Pebble Beach, now a world-renowned resort and golf course.

Date: 1920

No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.

Date: 1938