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No caption. Commemorative U.S. postage stamp issued in 1931, featuring the Statue of Liberty, with the word "Liberty" on a scroll across the bottom of the stamp. This was only the second time the Statue of Liberty was featured on a postage stamp.

Date: 1931

Caption: "Old Cathedral, St. Augustine." View of the tower, columned entryway, and bells of Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. The oldest church in Florida, the first building on the site was established in 1565. The cathedral seen in this photograph (which exists today) was constructed between 1793 and 1797. The cathedral was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

Date: 7/10/1934

Caption: "Mechanics of Hendy Machine Works, 1894." The Joshua Hendy Machine Works operated in San Francisco until the facilities were destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. The company relocated to Sunnyvale, California, after the local government there enticed them with free land. William McCarthy can be seen standing (sixth from left) in the second from back row.

Date: 1894

No caption. Unidentified woman and boy sitting in a small go-cart in front of the John Shields residence in the Daybreak Estate area of Long Island.

Date: 1934

Caption: "Grand Canyon of Arizona," c. 1925. Bird's eye view of part of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, on the Colorado River.

Date: 1925

No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing on the banks of the Russian River at Monte Rio resort, in Sonoma County, c. 1910.

Date: 1910

No Caption: Mission Delores, the oldest intact building still standing in San Francisco today, suffered little damage from the 1906 earthquake. The parish church next to it was greatly damaged and rebuilt as the Mission Dolores Basilica, opened in 1918.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Forrestry [sic] Building, Portland Exposition." View of the Forestry Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Constructed of approximately one million board feet of lumber, including dozens of unpeeled, old-growth tree trunks, the building was purchased by the City of Portland after the Exposition. The building was later destroyed by fire, in 1964. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It 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

Caption: "Government exhibits of navy guns, Government Building." Shows a variety of naval weaponry. The exhibit was located in the Government Building of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, held in Portland, Oregon from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. The 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

Caption: "Battery covered with snow, Fort Worden, Wash.," c. 1908-1912. Shows the three batteries at Fort Worden covered in a blanket of snow, with the ocean or Puget Sound in the distance. Construction began on the fort in 1898, and by 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the "triangle of fire," three coastal defense fortifications (Fort Casey, Fort Worden, and Fort Flagler) guarding the entrance to Puget Sound. The U.S. sold the property to the state of Washington in 1957. In 1973, the fort and surrounding area opened as Fort Worden State Park.

Date: 1908