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Caption: "Flavel Hotel -- on the Columbia River.," c. 1905-1909. Built at the turn of the century, the Flavel Hotel housed passengers waiting to board steamships of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company bound for San Francisco and other ports. The Flavel family constructed the hotel as part of an effort to establish the town of Flavel on Tansy Point along the Columbia River. The town failed to attract sufficient residents, however, and was annexed into Warrenton by 1918.

Date: 1905

Caption: "An Abandoned Hydraulic Mine near Camptonville Calif.," c. 1920. Hillside ravaged by hydraulic mining, in which a pressurized jet of water washes sediment and gravel into a series of sluices, allowing the heavier gold and gold-carrying sediment to sink to the bottom for removal. California banned this environmentally destructive practice in 1884.

Date: 1920

Caption: "New Westminster Bridge.," c. 1908-1912. View of the New Westminster Bridge (also known as the New Westminster Rail Bridge or the Fraser River Swing Bridge), which opened to traffic in 1904. The lower deck carried trains, while the upper deck (which was removed in 1937) was accessible to both foot and vehicle traffic.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Washington State Capitol -- Olympia.," c. 1920. Also known as The Castle, this building served as Washington's state capitol building from 1905 to 1928, when the Legislature moved into the current building. The central tower of The Castle was lost in a 1928 fire, while numerous other towers fell to the 1949 Olympia earthquake. Some of those towers have been restored.

Date: 1920

Caption: "Presidio Avenue. Entrance to Presidio," c. 1906. Gateway into the Presidio of San Francisco, bracketed by brick podiums topped by ornamental pinnacles. Three soldiers stand guard at the gate. Established in 1776 by Spanish explorers, the Presidio is a fortified location overlooking the Golden Gate, the entrance into San Francisco Bay. It was closed as a military structure in 1995, and is now a park within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Walterboro Negroes and Their Shack. If the Window Wont [sic] Stay Closed, Put a Stick Up to It, You Wont [sic] Break the Glass. House Foundation Gone But They Live Merrily On. July 17, 1934." Unidentified family posing in front of a dilapidated home in Walterboro.

Date: 7/17/1934

Caption: "Pump Room and Boiler House," c. 1906, shows a man posing for a photograph next to machinery at the Crockett Sugar Mill.

Date: 1906

No caption, c. 1920. River scene with a boat, possibly a paddle steamer, traveling close to the riverbank at the left side of the photograph.

Date: 1920

Caption: "Entrance - California Building," (Bertrum Goodhue, architect), shows the richly-decorated entranceway to the California Building at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1915.

Date: 1915

Caption: "119. Kobenhavn, Raadhuspladsen." This postcard shows a view of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was sent to William and Grace McCarthy on May 12, 1915, from Copenhagen.

Date: 1915