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Caption: "South Gardens, Looking West from Tower of Jewels," at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. See also 96-07-08-alb01-035.
Date: 1915
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Caption: "Sierra Summit, Truckee Highway." Mountain scene showing car on road with switch-backs, probably along what is now Interstate 80.
Date: 1927
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Caption: "Lower Falls - Yellowstone Grand Canyon," c. 1923. As the Yellowstone River flows north from Yellowstone Lake it passes over two waterfalls (Upper and Lower Yellowstone Falls) before reaching the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. This photograph shows the 308-foot Lower Yellowstone Falls, as seen from a nearby mountain top or bluff. It carries more water volume than any other waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
Date: 1923
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Caption: "Opening Day, Nov. 12, 1936, San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge, Before the Traffic Started." View of the San Francisco terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Built between May 1933 and its opening on November 12, 1936, the Bay Bridge's design combined three different types of bridge-building technology over the five miles it covers between San Francisco and Oakland: a suspension span, a cantilevered span, and a tunnel. At the time of its completion the bridge was the longest steel structure on the globe. It also featured the deepest bridge pier ever built, and the world's largest bore tunnel.
Date: 11/12/1936
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Caption: "Houston Ship Channel Ferry -- Houston Tex. June 9, 34." View of a ferry with a single vehicle on board, crossing the Houston Ship Channel. The dredged channel was opened in 1914 as part of the Port of Houston.
Date: 6/9/1934
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No Caption: A view of the reconstruction on Market Street after the 1906 earthquake and fires, c. 1907.
Date: 1907
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No caption. William McCarthy and an unidentified woman pose in front of a landscaped area with an arbor, c. 1925.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "A pass through lava walls. The Golden Gate of Yellowstone National Park," c. 1935.
Date: 1935
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No Caption: The Smith Tower, named after it builder, industrialist and typewriter magnate, Lyman Cornelius Smith, opened in 1914. At 38 floors, the Smith Tower was the first skyscraper in Seattle and the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, c. 1935.
Date: 1935
