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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
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Caption: "Stanford Chapel," c. 1912-1915. Façade of Stanford Memorial Chapel, designed by Charles A. Coolidge and dedicated in 1903. The church was commissioned by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband, Leland Stanford. See also 96-07-08-alb04-202 and 215.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Oakland City Hall," c. 1906. Pictured is Oakland's old City Hall at 14th and Broadway. Upon the completion of the new and current city hall in 1914, the old city hall was demolished to make way for City Hall Plaza, now Frank H. Ogawa Plaza.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "Bullion Bend Monument," c. 1920. William and Grace McCarthy standing in front of an automobile, near a stone monument. Bullion Bend, located between Pollock Pines and Whitehall in the historic Highway 50 corridor, was the scene of a stagecoach robbery in 1864 in which silver bullion was stolen by robbers claiming to need the money in order to support the Confederate Army.
Date: 1920
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Report on investigation by Owen M. Kessel on the desire for the Army to remain in control of the Tule Lake Camp
Date: November 10, 1943
