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Caption: "New Prison for Segregation of San Quentin Prisoners. View Showing New Dormitory and Prison Yard with Relation to Existing Prison. Mt. Tamalpais in Background." Drawing by Alfred Eichler, September 26, 1934. Project for Department of Corrections.
Date: 1934
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Unidentified African-American woman and several children posing on the porch of a wood-plank home. *Please Note:* Original caption removed due to sensitive content. To view the original photograph with caption, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
Date: 6/17/1934
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Caption: "State Sign, Between Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyoming. Oct. 1, 1934." William McCarthy standing next to an informational road sign in Wyoming, noting the location as being along the U.S.'s primary Continental Divide.
Date: 10/1/1934
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Caption: "Battery Kinzie firing 'Trial Shots' Aug 1, 1912" and "No 10 Near Pt. Townsend, WA." Battery Kinzie was a coastal defense battery designed to include two 12-inch disappearing guns, installed at Fort Worden. Construction began in 1908. It was turned over to the U.S. Army's Coast Artillery Corps in 1912 for use in defending the entrance to Puget Sound. This postcard shows one of the 12-inch guns firing, with several unidentified men standing nearby holding their hands to their ears.
Date: 8/1/1912
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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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Caption: "Coast Defense." Photograph of part of a print from the Illustrated London News, titled "A Modern Method of Coast Defense: The Arrangement of an Up-To-Date Battery." See also 96-07-08-alb08-230.
Date: 1910-09-03
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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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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
