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Clear Lake String Beans

Date: 1898

Correspondence from Charles M. Wollenberg to Beulah Lewis regarding number of assistance cases in Los Angeles County

Date: April 6, 1945

O. K. Old Gilt Edge Bourbon

Date: 1890

Correspondence from C. Rollin Zane to Bess Replogle regarding recommendations for Japanese children in institutions; Attachment: Memo on Recommendations for Children in Institutions(F3729_64_009b)

Date: May 4, 1942

The Boss

Date: 1885

Caption: "N.Y. State Capitol - Albany." New York State's Capitol Building was constructed between 1867 and 1899. The initial architect, Thomas Fuller, designed the first floor in a Classical or Romanesque style. He was replaced by Leopold Eidlitz and Henry Hobson Richardson, who designed the next two floors in a Renaissance style. The final architect to preside over the project, Isaac G. Perry, completed the building in a Victorian-Romanesque style. See also 96-07-08-alb11-247.

Date: 9/7/1934

No Caption: c. 1910. View of the Desdemona Lighthouse, constructed in 1901 or 1902 on wood pilings over a group of shoals at the mouth of the Columbia River. The shoals carry the same name as the lighthouse, both of which are named for the bark Desdemona which ran aground and was destroyed by the shoals in 1857. The lighthouse was automated in 1934, and its light eventually removed in 1965.

Date: 1910

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb03-070 with caption: "Shasta Springs." Waterfall, hillside, and buildings at Shasta Springs, c. 1910. Shasta Springs, just north of Dunsmuir, California, in the Trinity Mountains, was a resort area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It centered around natural springs, which became a featured stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Shasta Route. The resort operated until the 1950s, when it was purchased by private interests.

Date: 1910

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

Caption: "Stanley Park Vancouver B.C.," c. 1908-1912. Shows a pond with central fountain, surrounded by lush vegetation including evergreen trees. A group of people stands at the pond's edge in the distance. The City of Vancouver opened Stanley Park in 1888. The 405-hectare park is even now thickly forested, and remains Vancouver's largest park. It is located on the northern edge of the city, surrounded on three sides by Vancouver Harbor and English Bay.

Date: 1908