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Caption: "The Chutes, S. F.," c. 1905. View of the Fulton Street Chutes, a 350-foot water slide. Boats or toboggans careened down the slide into a man-made lake at the bottom. Such "chutes" were very popular throughout the U.S. and Europe at the turn of the century. The Fulton Street Chutes operated from 1902-1907 as part of an amusement park area that also featured the "Circle Swing Flying Machine" (also visible in the photograph), a theater, bar, merry-go-round, and a zoo.

Date: 1905

Correspondence from Luna B. Brown to State Public Assistance Agencies regarding medical care during resettlement

Date: April 26, 1945

Caption: "Spanish Club Building -- Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 1934." View of the Centro Gallago, now called "Gran Teatro de La Habana," or "Great Theatre of Havana," completed in 1915. It serves as the headquarters for the Cuban National Ballet Company.

Date: 7/4/1934

Anti-Monopoly

Date: 1882

Hand-drawn sketch map of Casmalia boundaries. Volume 1, page 558.

Date: 1839

Pomona Valley Brand

Date: 1897

Esmeralda

Date: 1885

Caption: "Causeway Crossing Lake Pontchartrain -- New Orleans -- June 19, 34." The concrete deck of the Maestri Bridge (also called the Pontchartrain Bridge, the Five Mile Bridge, or the Watson-Williams Pontchartrain Bridge) stretches into the distance over Lake Pontchartrain in this photograph. Built in 1928 as the first permanent crossing of Lake Pontchartrain, it was also the longest concrete bridge in the world at the time of its construction. The bridge, almost five miles long, spans the lake between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana.

Date: 6/17/1934

The California

Date: 1895

Hand-drawn sketch map of Pastorio de las Borregas boundaries. Volume 1, page 694.

Date: 1840