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Caption: "Sentinel Hotel," c. 1917. The Sentinel Hotel at Yosemite Village, with a granite cliff in the background and the Merced River in the foreground. Construction of the hotel began in 1876, and at the turn of the century it was the only hotel operating in the valley. Increased attendance as the twentieth century progressed resulted in the construction of other tourist areas such as Curry Village, and the Sentinel gradually became obsolete. The Sentinel and the complex of buildings that had grown up around it were torn down in the late 1930s.

Date: 1917

Mountlowe

Date: 1895

Caption: "Sugar Cane and Cotton Fields -- Florida, June 23, 34." A sugar cane field (at left) borders a cotton field (at right) in this photograph.

Date: 6/23/1934

Hand-drawn sketch map of San Miguel or Chisino boundaries. Volume 1, page 578.

Date: 1840

Caption: "Indian Wigwam," c. 1917. Grace McCarthy poses at the entrance to what William McCarthy labeled a "wigwam," a dwelling of the Ahwahnechee people. The Ahwahnechee (a Native American tribe who traditionally occupied the Yosemite Valley) called the dwellings o-chum. Pine branches were arranged in a tee-pee-like shape and then covered with layered slabs of cedar bark.

Date: 1917

Squirrel and Gopher Exterminator

Date: 1893

Van Buskirk's Sozodont

Date: 1898

Correspondence from Ralph P. Merritt to Earl Warren regarding riots at Manzanar, administration of Manzanar, movement of certain Japanese from Manzanar to Tule Lake, citizenship, and loyalty

Date: August 29, 1943

List of bulletins and circular letters relating to procedures published and distributed to counties

Date: Undated

Hand-drawn sketch map of Cañada de Raimundo boundaries. Volume 1, page 592.

Date: 1839