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Caption: "Conservatory -- Botanical Gardens -- St. Lewis," c. 1923. Shows the Palm House, built in 1915 to house tropical plants in the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. It was torn down in 1959 to make room for the domed geodesic Climatron building which still stands at the site. See also 96-07-08-alb09- 086.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Watervliet Arsenal Entrance," c. 1925. A tree-lined driveway to the Watervliet Arsenal Entrance. The Arsenal was founded in 1813 in Watervliet, New York, to support the War of 1812. Today the Arsenal houses the U.S. Army's Benét Laboratories, part of the Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Ordnance Corps," c. 1905. A group photograph of the Ordnance Corps at the Benicia Arsenal. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps was to supply combat weapons and ammunition to U.S. Army forces on the west coast of the United States.

Date: 1905

One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.

Date: 1934

Caption: "Chicago Fair Grounds at Night. Sept. 22, 1934." View of a portion of the Century of Progress Exposition as seen at night. The Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."

Date: 9/22/1934

Caption: "Benicia Wharf Disaster," c. 1906, shows a collapsed building on the Benicia wharf, likely due to the April 1906 earthquake that devastated the city of San Francisco.

Date: 1906

No Caption: Grace McCarthy standing on a snow covered landscape next to a series of snow sculptures with "1932" written in rocks below.

Date: 1932

Caption: "Entrance to Social Hall, Students Union, Fresno." Drawing of Student Activities Building, Fresno State College. Design and drawing by Alfred Eichler. Project for Department of Education.

Date: 1940

No caption, c. 1912-1915. Unidentified woman standing at the gate to a white picket fence in front of a residence.

Date: 1915

Caption: "Turpentine Still, Darien, Georgia. July 13, 1934." Two unidentified men standing in front of a large barn or shed, with numerous barrels surrounding them, presumably for turpentine and other resin products. After being harvested from pine trees, resin is then subjected to steam distillation to evaporate off the turpentine.

Date: 7/13/1934