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Hand-drawn sketch map of Nacional boundaries. Volume 1, page 64.

Date: 1834

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: "String of Cars, Market Street Ferry," 1906. A view of cable cars, people, and a scaffolded Ferry Building at the end of Market Street, after the 1906 earthquake.

Date: 1906

Caption: "Aimee McPherson's Angeles Temple- Los Angeles," c. 1935. Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for her theatrical sermons and claims of healing the sick, and for founding the Foursquare Church.

Date: 1935

Hand-drawn sketch map of San Ramon boundaries. Volume 1, page 174.

Date: 1833

Caption: "Court House, Redwood City," c. 1912-1915. View of the Redwood City Courthouse building, constructed in 1910 and designed by Glenn Allen. This was the fourth courthouse built on the site. The dome was originally part of the third courthouse building, and was the only portion of that structure to survive the 1906 earthquake. It was subsequently incorporated into the fourth courthouse building, dubbed the Temple of Justice. In 1939 the county removed the courthouse's facade in order to add a new building (the Fiscal Building) to the site. The Fiscal Building was torn down in 2005 and the original facade of the fourth courthouse reconstructed.

Date: 1915

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

German Mothers' Syrup

Date: 1897

Caption: "Alligator Wrestler at the Alligator Farm -- Miami -- Flopida [sic] July, [sic] 1 1934." An unidentified man grasps an alligator by the snout in this photograph.

Date: 7/1/1934

Caption: "Vancouver, B.C. Left, Vancouver Hotel, center, Canadian National Hotel," c. 1935.

Date: 1935