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Caption, c. 1905. Sixteen camels pull the Ringling Brothers Egyptian Circus Wagon down a street in Santa Rosa in this photograph. The Ringling Brothers Circus first came to Santa Rosa in 1903. The traveling circus became an annual event in the town for the next two decades.

Date: 1905

Caption: "State Capitol, Sacramento," c. 1910. The Capitol building in Sacramento, California. Located on the west end of Capitol Park, the neoclassical building's construction began in 1860 and was completed in 1874. It houses the state legislature and offices of the governor. The capitol and grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and as a California Historical Landmark in 1974.

Date: 1910

Caption: "Review, Fort Worden.," c. 1908-1912. Shows a military band playing or preparing to play, with rows of troops assembled in the background on the right side of the photograph. Fort Worden is located in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the State of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.

Date: 1908

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Date: 1886

Caption: "Capitol Building -- Havana -- Cuba. July 4, 1934." The building seen in this photograph, reminiscent of the U.S. Capitol, served as Cuba's Capitol from its completion in 1929 until after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Designed by Eugenio Rayneri Piedra, the building now houses the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

Date: 7/4/1934

Caption: "Miami Fla. Miami Beach in the Distance. Taken from City Hall Tower, June 30, 1934." Bird's eye view of Miami, with the ocean in the distance. This photograph was likely taken from atop the Miami-Dade Courthouse rather than City Hall.

Date: 6/30/1934

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

No caption, c. 1930. Football stadium filled with fans for a game, with a marching band on the field at the lower center of the photograph. The stadium is unidentified, but may be University of California, Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium, built in 1923.

Date: 1930

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

Caption: "Fallen Giant - Mariposa Grove," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses with two unidentified people next to the Fallen Monarch, the enormous trunk of a fallen Giant Sequoia in Maripose Grove. It is estimated that the tree fell more than 300 years ago, but the natural resistance of Giant Sequoias to rot has preserved the trunk to the present time.

Date: 1917