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Caption: "The La Salle [sic], New York. Aug. 25, 1934." View of a Cadillac LaSalle parked in a driveway. The LaSalle was produced by General Motors' Cadillac division between 1927 and 1940.

Date: 8/25/1934

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: "State St. Salt Lake City. Capitol Bldg. in the Distance, Oct. 4, 1934." Street scene, with a wide road stretching toward the Utah State Capitol Building in the distance. Trolley tracks appear on the roadway, with wires overhead.

Date: 10/4/1934

Correspondence from Martha A. Chickering to Mike Masaoka; see Correspondence from JACL (F3729_56_005a-F3729_56_005b)

Date: January 12, 1942

No caption. Obverse of a souvenir ticket for the "Official Pedestrian Day" on May 27, 1937, held as part of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta celebrating the opening of the now-iconic bridge. The celebrations occupied an entire week, kicked off by Pedestrian Day, when more 200,000 people were allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on foot or on roller skates, the day before the bridge opened for vehicular traffic.

Date: 5/27/1937

No Caption: shows a man in a hat and overcoat feeding pigeons near what appears to be the columns of the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Boulder Dam. View Taken From Launch on Boulder Lake," c. 1935, shows Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the United States, providing water to the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada.

Date: 1935

Caption: "FAIR BUILDING, Victoria, B. C.," c. 1901-1907. View of an exhibition building with multiple turrets and flags, constructed in Oak Bay (near Victoria) circa 1891. Designed by Cornelius Soule, the building was destroyed by fire in 1907.

Date: 1901