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Caption: "California Building Tower - July 18, 15," (Bertrum Goodhue, architect), at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1915. The exposition's Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture designed by Bertrum Goodhue is credited with giving the style national exposure.
Date: 1915
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Lliajome or Yajome boundaries. Volume 1, page 610.
Date: 1838
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Portrero de Felipe Lugo boundaries. Volume 2, page 126.
Date: 1845
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Caption: "Coney Island. Sunday Crowd. New York. Aug. 19, 1934." Very crowded beach scene on New York's Coney Island. The construction of several resort hotels on the island in the 1870s and 1880s encouraged construction of amusement parks to provide tourist destinations. Coney Island has hosted several large amusement parks over the years, including one of the world's first roller coasters (built in 1884). Numerous smaller attractions were available as well. The island's popularity peaked in the mid-twentieth century, in the World War II era, but despite some decline is still a world-renowned recreation area.
Date: 8/19/1934
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Caption: "Snow Storm - Benicia Calif.," c. 1915, shows an unidentified person walking on a snow-covered landscape in Benicia.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "A 12" Disappearing Battery," c. 1915. View of a barbette equipped with a 12" disappearing gun. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.
Date: 1915
