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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
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Caption: "Palace of Horticulture," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-085.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "General View - Panama -California Exposition, San Diego, Cal." Shows a bird's eye view of the exposition grounds.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "SPORTS," c. 1917. Image of a pole vaulter attempting to clear a jump, with rows of men clad in military uniforms observing. The uniforms and the surrounding vegetation suggest that this may have taken place at Camp Lewis, Washington.
Date: 1917
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Caption: "Scheme No. 1. Addition to Hospital Bldg. San Quentin." Preliminary design of addition of 4th floor to hospital building, San Quentin State Prison, c. 1934. Project for Department of Corrections.
Date: 1934
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Caption: "Decorated Locomotive. Fifth Liberty Bond Drive -- Benicia, Calif." During World War I, the U.S. government raised funds for the war by issuing "liberty bonds." Citizens who purchased the bonds could later redeem them for the purchase price plus interest. Liberty Bond Drives were held to encourage people to purchase the bonds. This photograph shows a locomotive employed in the fifth Liberty Bond Drive, held in 1919. Decorated with bunting and flags to inspire patriotic feeling, Liberty Bond Trains crisscrossed the U.S. to round up funding.
Date: 1919
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Design and drawing of elevations for Sixteenth Street Bridge by Alfred Eichler. Built. Project for Department of Public Works - Highways - Bridge Department.
Date: 1939
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Caption: "Portland Fair," Portland, Oregon, 1905. The Lewis and Clark Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon, from June 1st to October 15th, 1905. It celebrated the one-hundred year anniversary of the exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and what became the northwestern part of the United States, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Some 1.6 million people visited the fair, viewing exhibits from twenty-one countries.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Fountain - Rising Sun," (Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-089.
Date: 1915
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No caption, c. 1917. Group of men posing on 6" Howitzers at Camp Kearney. William McCarthy is standing in a dark suit just beneath the barrel of the middle gun. Camp Kearney was established by the U.S. Army in 1917 just north of San Diego. The post was largely abandoned by the government in 1920, used as a military and civilian airfield. It did not see increased military service again until the 1930s.
Date: 1917
