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Caption: "Scheme No. 1. Addition to Hospital Bldg. San Quentin." Preliminary design of addition of 4th floor to hospital building, San Quentin State Prison, c. 1934. Project for Department of Corrections.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Brigham Young Monument, Salt Lake City.," c. 1916. Designed by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, the Brigham Young Monument (also known as the Pioneer Monument) stands before the Salt Lake Temple in this photograph. The statue was first displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and moved to its post at Main and South Temple Streets in Salt Lake City in 1897.
Date: 1916
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Caption: "Dragons Mouth - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. This hot spring originates deep underground. Rising gas and steam create pressure bubbles within the mud of the cavern. When they burst against the cave roof, they emit a growling, booming sound. Steam also drifts from the cavern entrance, creating the illusion of smoke from a dragon's mouth.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Yellowstone - Grand Canyon," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone River can be glimpsed at the bottom of the Canyon near the center of the photograph. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "City Hall, San Francisco, Population in San Francisco 750,000, May 21, 1935." The date with which the photograph was labeled (May 21, 1935) does not appear to be accurate. The date is more likely circa 1925. See also 96-07-08-alb09-003 and 005, and 96-07-08-alb11-001.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Boulder Lake [Lake Mead] - as the lake rises the small island will be submerged," c. 1935. Lake Mead was created by the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam, and is the largest man-made reservoir (when full) in the United States.
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
