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Caption: "S.S. Santa Rosa." Wreck of the S.S. Santa Rosa off Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County. The steamship ran aground on July 6, 1911. Unable to break free, the turbulent waters eventually cracked the ship in half. All two hundred passengers got to shore alive, the only fatalities coming when four sailors were accidentally thrown out of a lifeboat by rough seas while attempting to establish a land line to stabilize the wreck.
Date: 1911
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No Caption: Pedestrians seen walking towards the entrance to the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego.
Date: 1915
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No caption: Four unidentified men pose next to machinery at the Crockett Sugar Mill, c. 1906.
Date: 1906
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No caption: A path leading to the John Shields home on Long Island.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Carson City." Street scene with Grace McCarthy standing next to an automobile.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "A Twisted Monument," 1906, shows damage from the earthquake to a monument in a San Francisco cemetery.
Date: 1906
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Caption: "President Roosevelt in Vallejo," c. 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt came to California in 1903, visiting several cities and towns, including Vallejo, where he laid the cornerstone of the Navy YMCA. Thousands traveled to Vallejo to greet the president, most by steam railroad.
Date: 1903
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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
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No caption, c. 1915-1920. Unidentified women standing at a summit point in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at elevation 7,630 feet. She is standing next to a road sign with directions and distances to Placerville and Lake Tahoe listed.
Date: 1920
