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Hand-drawn sketch map of Blosa de San Felipe boundaries. Volume 1, page 570.
Date: 1839
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Caption: " Grand Canyon - Yellowstone," c. 1923. Bird's eye view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The 308-foot tall cascade of Lower Yellowstone Falls can be seen at the top of the photograph, flowing into the Canyon. The Canyon is approximately 24 miles long, and between 800 and 1,200 feet deep.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Second Ave. Seattle.," c. 1915. Street scene, showing Seattle's Second Avenue. An electric streetcar and the Smith Tower can be seen in the distance, as well as the Hotel Savoy, the Vienna Café, and other businesses.
Date: 1915
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Hand-drawn sketch map of Cañada de Palomea or Guejeto y Cañada de Palomea boundaries. Volume 2, page 140.
Date: 1845
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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
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Caption: "Yosemite Zip," c. 1935. This is possibly a postcard that shows a comical creature made with parts of pine cones, acorns, feathers, and nuts.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "Sloat Monument. Monument, Cal," c. 1915, shows the Commodore John Drake Sloat monument in Monterey, California. The monument was constructed in 1910 and commemorates the taking possession of California from Mexico in 1846 by Sloat and his men at Monterey, which was the capital city of Alta California during the Mexican era.
Date: 1915
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No caption. Clipping from an unidentified newspaper or pamphlet regarding the history of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
Date: 8/4/1934
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Caption: "A natural palm grove on the highway near Villa Juarez, Mexico."
Date: 1938
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Caption: "New Westminster Bridge.," c. 1908-1912. View of the New Westminster Bridge (also known as the New Westminster Rail Bridge or the Fraser River Swing Bridge), which opened to traffic in 1904. The lower deck carried trains, while the upper deck (which was removed in 1937) was accessible to both foot and vehicle traffic.
Date: 1908
