Search All Items

Caption: "South Portal Golden Gate Tunnel. Marin County approach to Golden Gate Bridge." Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.

Date: 1938

This item has no description.

Date: 1860

Caption: "Alcatraz," c. 1920. Image of lighthouse, main prison building (at top of hill), residences, and wharf facilities at Alcatraz Island prior to its designation as a federal penitentiary in 1934. Built in 1859 by the U.S. Army for coastal defense purposes, the fort at Alcatraz began serving as a prison in 1861. It ceased function as a defense fortification and became the Pacific Branch of the U.S. Military Prison in 1907. Over the next two decades the facilities on the island were modified and modernized.

Date: 1920

In the years following the passage of the 1911 state suffrage amendment, supporters continued to advocate for the federal enfranchisement of women across the country. Suffragists created and distributed ephemera to publicize their cause and gain support for the movement, including literature, pennants, posters, shopping bags, playing cards, postcards, and pin-back buttons, such as this ribbon with a “Votes for Women” pin from 1912.

Date: 1912?

Caption: "San Francisco April 18, 1906. Center of Town. The Awful Fire after the Shake." Shows much smoke with buildings on fire in the center of the city, after the earthquake. Considered one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed over 500 city blocks, leaving approximately 200,000 residents homeless.

Date: 1906

No Caption: See also 96-07-08-alb08-066 with caption: "In Victoria, B.C." Five men (William McCarthy in the center) sitting in and standing near horse-drawn buggies in Victoria, British Columbia, c. 1906.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Alcatraz," c. 1906. View of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The building on the highest part of the island, just to the left of center in the photograph, is the Alcatraz Citadel (also known as Fort Alcatraz). Built in 1859 by the U.S. Army for coastal defense purposes, the Citadel began serving as a prison in 1861. It ceased function as a defense fortification and became the Pacific Branch of the U.S. Military Prison in 1907. The Citadel was demolished in 1909. Over the next two decades the facilities on the island were modified and modernized, becoming a federal penitentiary in 1934.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Camp Life.," c. 1915-1920. William and Grace McCarthy seated next to automobile at an unidentified campground for a meal. See also 96-07-08-alb04-175, 179, 180, 181, and 182.

Date: 1920

Grizzly

Date: 1881

Closeup on Monterey County from image of a page from the newspaper Placer Times reporting the Census of 1852 returns.

Date: 1853