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Office Memorandum from Bertha Underhill to Paul Traynor regarding claims classifications
Date: December 20, 1945
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Caption: "The Bennington (after the Boiler Explosion)." View of the USS Bennington, a U.S. Navy gunboat, Yorktown class, launched in 1890. She had tours of duty in South America, the Mediterranean, North and Central America, Hawaii, and the Philippines. On July 21, 1905, while in San Diego Harbor, the Bennington's boiler exploded, killing sixty-six men and injuring many more. Taken after the explosion, in this photograph the Bennington sits low in the water.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Court House -- San Diego," c. 1910. View of the second courthouse built by San Diego County, completed in 1889. Designed by architectural firm Cornstock & Trotsche of San Francisco, this elaborate building featured a bell and clock tower, statues of four presidents, and 42 stained-glass windows honoring each state in the Union at the time of installation. The tower was removed in 1939. Twenty years later, the entire building was demolished in favor of a newer facility.
Date: 1910
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Caption: "Lower Falls - Yellowstone," c. 1923. This photograph features the massive Lower Yellowstone Falls, as seen from the falls' base. A group of unidentified people standing to one side provides some sense of scale. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. The 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "View of Portland Fair Grounds." This photograph shows a panoramic view of the fair grounds where the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon, from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. The international exposition celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
Date: 1905
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No Caption: Scene of archways and reflecting pool at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Date: 1915
