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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

Caption: "Fort Casey Lake, Reflections.," c. 1908-1912. Peaceful scene at Crocket Lake near Fort Casey, the water so still that the trees and surrounding hills are clearly reflected in the lake's waters.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Mobile Bay, Mobile, Alabama, June 21, 34." The photograph provides a view of Mobile Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama. The City of Mobile sits at its northwestern shore. Harbor facilities are evident in the photograph, and several small boats are docked at a wharf, including the tugboat Harry G. Lytle.

Date: 6/19/1934

Caption: "Union Depot St. Louis," c. 1923. Opened in 1894, the St. Louis Union Depot was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970. Designed by Theodore Link, the building features a 280-foot-tall clock tower. At the time of its construction, it was the largest, busiest railroad station in the world.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Snow scenery, Fort Worden, Wash.," c. 1908. Overview of Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, on Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. Construction began on the fort in 1898. By 1902 it was serving as an active U.S. Army base. Fort Worden was part of the so-called "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

Caption: "Vernal Falls [sic]," c. 1917. The Merced River tumbles over boulders downstream of the 317-foot tall cascade of Vernal Fall.

Date: 1917

Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Gardener," c.1905, shows the gardner of the Benicia Arsenal carrying two large watering cans near an unidentified structure.

Date: 1905

No caption. An unidentified man poses in the drivers seat of an automobile while two unidentified boys sit on the car's running boards.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Orange Hot Spring - Yellowstone, " c. 1923. View of Yellowstone's Orange Spring Mound, part of the complex of thermal features at the Mammoth Hot Springs.

Date: 1923

Caption: "West Point," c. 1925. The United States Military Academy, commonly referred to as West Point, as viewed from across the Hudson River.

Date: 1925