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Caption: "Yosemite.," c. 1920. View of the Yosemite Valley from the valley floor, with the Merced River in the foreground, and El Capitan (left) and the Cathedral Rocks (right) in the background. Bridalveil Fall cascades down a cliff face beneath the Cathedral Rocks.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Mountain Scene -- Tenaya Lake." Meadow with surrounding rocks and mountains. Named after Chief Tenaya of Yosemite Valley's Ahwahnechee People, Tenaya Lake is located between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows within Yosemite National Park. The surface elevation of the alpine lake is 8,150 feet.
Date: 1927
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No Caption: The Smith Tower, named after it builder, industrialist and typewriter magnate, Lyman Cornelius Smith, opened in 1914. At 38 floors, the Smith Tower was the first skyscraper in Seattle and the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Blackstone Hotel -- Michigan Av. Chicago," c. 1923. Built in 1909 and designed by Benjamin Marshall, the twenty-one story Blackstone Hotel sits on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in Chicago Illinois. It is the building closest to the left side of the photograph in this row of high-rises. See also 96-07-08-alb09-092.
Date: 1923
