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No Caption: undated. View of train tracks, carried on a levee or jetty, disappearing into the distance, with water on either side.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Pan-American Highway monument marking the highway completion, July 1, 1936 Altitude 8209 feet. Highest point on route - 15 miles south of Octopan [sic], Mexico." Pictured is William McCarthy standing before the "Monument of Good Friendship (El Monumento de Buena Amistad), near Actopan, Mexico.

Date: 1938

Caption: "York Hazzard. He has Never Been Arrested for Speeding. Old Negro and His Mode of Traveling, Darien, Ga. July 13, 1934." York Hazzard, an elderly man of African-American ethnicity, seated in a small wooden cart drawn by a cow or steer. An automobile is parked on the street behind the cart.

Date: 7/13/1934

No caption. Clipping from an unidentified newspaper or pamphlet entitled "Route of U.S. air mail route from New York to Macao." It shows an airmail route traveling from New York, west across the U.S. to the Hawaiian Islands, then to "Midway Islands," Wake Island, Guam, "Philippine Islands", and finally Macao, China.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Jupiter Terrace - Mammoth Hot Springs - Yellowstone Park," c. 1923. Jupiter Terrace is part of the Lower Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs. A group of riding horses is seen at lower left, and a road flanks what appear to be observation points at the bottom right.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Sea Coast Guns.," c. 1908-1912. View of a disappearing coastal defense gun, with its carriage. Retracting or disappearing guns were a form of artillery developed in the nineteenth century in which heavy artillery guns were placed on rotating carriages that allowed retraction of the weapon after firing, to enable reloading while under enemy fire.

Date: 1908

Caption: "Examiner Cartoon" (Robert Caster, Cartoonist) c. 1906. A rendering of a giant and fierce grizzly bear labeled with "San Francisco" on its side, standing on a hillside, with three arrows in its hide, tagged with the words: "Earthquake," "Fire," and "Famine.," with the word "Undaunted!" above.

Date: 1906

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: "Independence Day Parade -- Benicia," c. 1905-1906. Parade float possibly with a Native American theme (stylized teepees can be seen at the back of the float) pulled by a team of horses bedecked in garlands, with a single person on horseback riding alongside.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Double Bow Knot Mt Tamalpais," c. 1907. A bird's eye view of the twisty road up Mount Tamalpais in Marin County.

Date: 1907